Can Your Diet Enhance Your Creativity?
December 3, 2007
Feeling down in the dumps as you face a blank page? Afraid your brain-freeze might not thaw anytime soon? You might try taking a big bite of a red hot chili pepper. The searing chemical reaction you’ll experience is Capsaicin stimulating your mouth’s nerve endings.
But a burning mouth is not where you’ll get your bounce from […]
Walking Builds the Body, Clears the Mind
November 10, 2007
Writing takes tenacity. Successful writers know there is nothing more important than planting your rear firmly in a chair and sitting there until the day’s work is done. However, this kind of sedentary activity takes its toll pretty quickly, so it’s important to have an exercise plan that goes beyond walking over to the refrigerator […]
Read the story »Is Your Keyboard Making You Sick?
October 30, 2007
Okay, I admit I have thought about this before. I spend a lot of time at my keyboard, even eat at it sometimes (I’m ashamed to say), and I have wondered how many germs might be on my keyboard. I use a damp cloth on it occasionally and even give it a blast of that […]
Read the story »Pronouncing Words Correctly
October 20, 2007
I was talking with a friend the other day, and he mentioned a woman who always dressed in a very “chick” way. He wasn’t trying to suggest that she was dressing in a womanly way, but that she was dressing in a fashionable way. Of course, he was referring the word word “chic,” which seems […]
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