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Back in June, a feature article I wrote for Today’s Dietitian had it’s cover singing, Complex Times Call for Simple Foods. Do I heed my own call? While my husband and I are (very gratefully) doing alright, this recession still pokes at us like the rain we’ve had this July (no fair and yet, no surprise). Because I have the best husband ever, when it rains, we splash. You’ll find us just outside our brownstone apartment, playing with sticks,...

My latest article in Today’s Dietitian is available online. Ever heard the expression that a little dirt never hurt anyone? Those who are familiar with the “hygiene hypothesis” just might have some data to back that up—or do they? The hygiene theory periodically finds its way into the news under the guise of headlines such as “Modern Hygiene’s Dirty Tricks” (Science News, 1999), “Kiddie Allergies: Let Them Eat Dirt” (What Doctors Don’t Tell You, 2002), and “From Good Hygiene...

My Writing: Complex Times Call for Simple Foods

Cover article by Maggie Moon, MS, RD “Complex Times Call for Simple Foods” Today’s Dietitian, June 2009 Available online here. Home is where the healthy foods are. Pantry basics such as rice, beans, and tea not only provide the basis for wholesome meals but also cost pennies per serving—good news for clients feeling the economic pinch. more…

This week’s education

My life used to be about waffles. I was compartmentalizing parts of my life into their own individual waffle boxes, each realm with it’s own walls, it’s own triumphs and disasters. (What does that have to do with ‘this week’s education’? — stay with me). Not only did I feel like a handful of different people, it was hard to find social support across waffle-boxes when I had personal difficulties in just one box. So I got to wondering...

awake

there’s a breath between the cluttered day, its impersonal commute, and crossing your home’s threshold. the mind quiets just enough to heighten curiosity and awareness, and in this moment, you feel of this world; if only to observe, disect. the young woman on the stoop, clutching a clear crinkling bag of cloying treats, gazes out across the street looking at nothing. she raises her hand to her lips and lets her teeth find a dark chocolate coating, then sink...

Dance and Nutrition Writing stuff coming up… Lindy hop/Swing dance workshop: Saturday, February 7th @ Swing ReMix Live music by the Boilermakers, featuring singer Dawn Lambeth from California, playing authentic hot jazz, ragtime and swing. Read all about them here. Dance Workshops Swing Remix is featuring one fabulous workshop for Saturday February 7th with two fabulous instructors! Please note that we have a huge floor for these classes providing plenty of space for all attendees! Our special reduced price foronline advanced sales is available now!...

In defense of punctuation

Few things inspire like outrage. If I could find an emoticon for stupefaction, that might be more appropriate. Today’s Times had a story about findings from a Pew study indicating that the informal language style common in electronic messaging has creeped into school work. In addition to the use of obvious faux pas like “LOL” and emoticons within academic work, students were also omitting more basic tenets of linguistic arts such as punctuation and capitalization. Before more ranting occurs,...

The Tipping Point: A Book Review

MALCOLM GLADWELL. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Paperback edition with new afterword by the author. New York: Back Bay Books, 2002. 280 pages. $14.95. In some sense, the goal of any book is to tell a story, to explain something. The Tipping Point fits right in with the tradition of books that try to explain the way the world works – or at least to elucidate some phenomenon of human existence. In this...

Blaming the Victim (a book review)

WILLIAM RYAN. Blaming the Victim, Revised, Updated Edition. New York: Vintage Books, 1976. 288 pages. $3.15. Though speaking to broadly held misconceptions, Blaming the Victim was also a direct response to Senator Daniel P. Moynihan’s 1965 report: The Negro Family: A Case for National Action (often referred to simply as the Moynihan report). In this attack on the left from the left, William Ryan defines blaming the victim as a concept of characterizing a universal problem as more unique...

Tribes on the Hill (a book review)

JACK MCIVER WEATHERFORD. Tribes on the Hill: The U.S. Congress Rituals and Realities, Revised Edition. New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1985. 316 pages. $32.95. An apparent paradox of Congress intrigued Weatherford: they “seemed trapped in some weird plane of mythological time where endless rituals were repeated with great effort, attention, and energy; yet, little was being accomplished.” (pp. xii) Weatherford initially planned to do a comparative study of the U.S. Congress to the legislative bodies of various modern nations....

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