Category: Health
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Swine flu facts
Is your school going completely nuts about the H1N1 (swine) flu yet? No? Just wait… OK, it’s true that my son’s school has not yet broke out in swine-flu hives, but my daughter’s homeschool program does seem to have the rumblings of a controversy, so I thought I’d write about it and hopefully point a…
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Swine Flu vaccine – better safe than sorry
I noticed that Parmalee put in her ideas about the flu vaccine in last week’s newsletter, so I thought I’d write up some of my thoughts here. Unlike a lot of parents I know in Santa Cruz, I am not anti-vaccine. Having read a fair amount about the devastating effects of many of the illnesses…
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Those early years
I was speaking with a mom on the phone. It was a business call of sorts, but since we know each other and she knows I’m sympathetic, she called while her kids were in the tub. As you can imagine, our call was punctuated with instructions to her kids, the sounds of splashing, and kids…
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PIWA for a six-year-old
In Growing Up in Santa Cruz this month I wrote an article about Positive Impact Wrestling Academy (PIWA). [Read the article here.] This organization is the brainchild of Reggie Roberts, the wrestling coach at Aptos High. When after years of working in substandard facilities he finally got to move his wrestlers into a well-equipped facility,…
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Learning to live with our biology
Someone forwarded a New York Times article about successful dyslexics to an e-mail list I’m on. The article is about the high proportion of successful entrepreneurs who are dyslexic. According to the article, it’s likely that these people are successful because of and/or in spite of their disability. One of the people featured, Paul Orfalea,…