All I wanted to do in my retirement years was write.  I presumed the easiest way to do that was to find a publisher and let the company go through the mechanics of getting my books into print.  So far that decision has proved unsatisfactory. I won’t go into details, but gi

Like Paul Revere,  I and others have spent time shouting, “The robots are coming.  The robots are coming.” I’m unsure what to do about it, but as writer  Jennifer Alserver notes, these machines are becoming smarter, more people sensitive and more versatile.   (“Is This Ro

Because fasting seems to improve health in mice and rats, some folks have decided to spend their days in similar fashion, existing on sips of air. Fasting, as writer Jennifer Alsever explains, deprives the body of glucose and forces it to steal ketones from the liver.  Ketones are a