by Sarah Jane Vickery | Jul 30, 2018 | Cartoon Club, Get Creative
I was reading about a very interesting 1992 study by a British psychologist who studied two groups of patients in two of Scotland’s orthopedic hospitals. The psychologist was interested to see what helped most for these people who were recovering from either hip or...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Jul 26, 2018 | Get Creative, Primal Diet
In the past century we have greatly changed how we process foods. Look at wheat. We started farming wheat about 10,000 years ago. It began because it was an advantage in creating civilisation to be able to store foods like grains. Even as little as 150 years ago,...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Jul 25, 2018 | Cartoon Club, Get Creative
When I sharing ideas met with Jenny Walker the other week we got on the subject of joy. Jenny says that she makes it a policy to laugh at least two times a day. She started this habit some time ago and she said that at first it was a bit of work to make herself laugh...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Jul 24, 2018 | Cartoon Club, Get Creative
I was reading about a radio station manager named Rich Meyer who had started a company called Mediabase in Chicago. His company was interested in understanding what made a particular song popular. They noticed that even songs that people said they disliked, listeners...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Jul 17, 2018 | Get Creative, Primal Diet
I was listening to Nina Teicholz, an investigative science journalist, who has the most fascinating, or perhaps scary is a better word, book on vegetable oils. To start with, vegetable oils are not made from vegetables, they are made from seeds and beans. Vegetable...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Jul 16, 2018 | Get Creative
Sometimes I do a walk at night around the lake by my house. Now it’s tiny, nothing like a lake by Canadian standards, but it’s peaceful and just the right size to make a nice walk. There are always lots of people fishing too so I’m guessing it must be fairly alive...
