Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... cola! Thirsty yet?  Visual cues such as these are used to drive food/beverage seeking and consum...

New Project Starting a new project tonight with  Paula Barnes new line, Hampton Ridge. 

Keep your Well, Well!

It’s easy to go about our day and not think about where the water we use comes from. In Thurston County, we drink  groundwater  and tha...

Take care with pigs while at the fair: Swine flu a risk

Are you heading to your state or county fair this summer? If so, take precautions when interacting with the pigs. Babe and Wilbur may be cut...

Public health accreditation update

Maine CDC continues to prepare for national accreditation by the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB), and is on track to submit an appl...

ODSP is Discriminatory

I'm nearing the end of a Human Rights case and I told my lawyer I was worried about receiving settlement money; that ODSP would take it....

A Field in Unmitigated England

I have been much exercised recently by thoughts concerning Ben Wheatley's new film A Field in England . On the first viewing I got to th...

A "Little" Summer Sewing I hope all your basket blocks are done and ready to be set.  I got a "little" carried away and ...

Bonding at Reculver

So there we were, motoring between tall hedges with the twin towers above their lonely beach playing peek-a-boo with us as we edged nearer t...