Month: August 2006

Drug ads sell disease

August 29, 2006 | No comments yet

Check out an insightful csmonitor.com article on how drug ads sell sickness to promote their products. The article reports that in the effort of pharmaceutical companies to create new disease markets, they’re frightening people into taking more prescriptions than they

Our cat Heidi

August 26, 2006 | 2 comments

We’re home from our brief trip to the mountains and back into the swing of tennis, swimming, and work for the kids and daily routine and fun adventure for the parents. We took our cat Heidi to the cabin this

Don’t give up

August 22, 2006 | 1 comment

I’m vacationing with my family at our cabin in the Blue Mountains in Oregon State for a few days. My son and I have been splitting wood for burning in the woodstove this winter. Operating an axe is not one

God is watching out for you

August 19, 2006 | No comments yet

A friend went for a walk through the woods on a very windy evening recently. Part way down the trail a mental nudge stopped him in his tracks. He looked down and saw his shoelace untied. As he bent to

Relax

August 17, 2006 | 1 comment

While working on improving my tennis serve, my coach told me to relax. I was too tense, he said, causing me to make many errors. He was right. I quickly saw that I needed to loosen up. When tense, my