Time has just ticked by... almost all my efforts on this site have been in upgrading the various pages that moved here from geocities: the fitness, Bible study, the Childbirth pages, and soon to come, quotations pages. Yahoo geocities has closed down their free hosting. I had been slowly transferring everything here, anyway. where has the time gone, though? I see I haven't put up new articles since 2007.  It was a bit difficult to learn the ropes on some of the new software and RL certainly kept me busy.

The Garden site has taken most of the work and effort to produce a quality site; that, and the fact that social networking is the new thing for communication online. That has been fun to explore, but quite time consuming.

We often speak of being consumers, but how often do we think of that in terms of time? We are all mass consumers of that nonrenewable resource. I will be keeping up with this page more through the year and as its mission takes form in my mind.

Intake of grapes, oranges, apples, and fresh tomatoes protected against wheeze and nasal allergies, and a high intake of nuts reduced the likelihood of wheezing. Margarine, on the other hand, was linked to an increased risk of wheeze nasal allergies.

SOURCE: Thorax, online April 5, 2007

I like to keep track of the stock market, and it is proving to be a likely candidate for metaphorically describing the season so far. The wild ups and downs of the weather in the Midwest and Northeast, as well as something personal like my blogs! Sometimes it's up and lots of the time it's down. Just wild.