Interest in ethnic origin searches and genealogical DNA testing has become one of the most popular hobbies in the US. Over-the-counter genetic test kits alone have developed into a billion-dollar industry. Just give your personal information to one or more genetic databases, and, in exchange, sites, such as myheritage.com, genealogy.com, ancestry.com, and genealogybank.com offer easy […]
Lifestyle
Psycho Cybernetics; self-image psychology
In 1960, Maxwell Maltz, a plastic surgeon from New York, published a book on self-image psychology and goal visualization called Psycho Cybernetics. In it, he introduced the analogy of the brain as a cybernetic “servo-mechanism”, like a computer designed to find a path to the target it is programmed with. Maltz suggests that you… 1. […]
Cows are Tough Critics
I brought BETWEEN NOW AND FOREVER, book four of my “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series, to my backyard friends for their input. After all, the story excerpt I planned to share concerned them–their moos to be exact. Happy cows are quiet cows as this video demonstrates. But, oh my, when their moos get loud […]
Dire Plight of the Western Monarch Butterfly
In 2003, when I started writing book three of my “Enter the Between” fiction series, I knew the Monarch Butterfly would play a major role in the story: as part of the natural setting of Pacific Grove (home to my story and to the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary) and as the symbolic representation of transformation and […]
Reading Regularly Can Improve Your Health
Did you get this month’s issue of Costco Connection in the mail (It really has some great articles)? If you did, check out “Reading for Life” in the For Your Health section. It confirms what I’ve believed for a long time: “Reading regularly can help you live longer and better.” Yes, reading regularly for 30 minutes a […]
Elk Grove Citizen’s Lifestyle
The following article about how my family came to California from Holland and settled in Elk Grove was published on August 1, 2013 in Elk Grove Citizen’s Lifestyle section by Elizabeth Pinkerton. Elk Grove’s Multicultural Festival is Aug. 24 and to celebrate our diversity, today’s focus is on another Supergrad, Margaret van Steyn Duarte (Class of ‘67). […]
