Filed under: Community, Embodiment, Health, Writing on 21 April 2009 @ 17:04
After a too long hiatus, Ramblemuse Touch Points (RMTP) is active again, now updated to current WordPress and restyled to match the main Ramblemuse.com theme. For help with the learning curve on creating a WordPress theme from scratch, I can point to a tutorial at wpdesigner with thanks. The tutorial was organized the way I [...]
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Filed under: Business, Embodiment, Health, Politics, Science, Writing on 8 June 2008 @ 12:35
At just over two weeks since my lay-off from LLNL, the lab is already starting to seem a memory seen through the aerosol-induced haze of distance. By focusing and working intensely on other endeavors, such as networking () and the general bibliography, I’ve deliberately accelerated my own psychological perception of the passing of time. Simply [...]
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Filed under: Business, Community, Embodiment, Science, Technology, Writing on 2 June 2008 @ 17:04
One of the books I’d gotten when I’d started thinking seriously of freelance writing a couple of years ago was Media Bistro’s first book — “Get a Freelance Life” by Margit Feury Ragland. I didn’t note it when I mentioned Media Bistro a few days ago, but the website includes sections for jobs and profiles, [...]
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Filed under: Community, Embodiment, Politics on 9 December 2007 @ 17:55
We too often seem to live in a world in which few understand the method of achieving a goal by fostering conditions in which that goal would naturally occur. Groups opposing the rate of abortions try to reduce that rate by legal force rather than by working to create conditions of education and economic means [...]
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Filed under: Embodiment, Politics, Writing on 11 July 2007 @ 5:47
I’ve been quiet on this blog lately, but not dormant. The end of May, I was off to the Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop. This allowed me to learn from the faculty and presenters with a great diversity of backgrounds and experience, including NY Times, Scientific American, Knight Media, and freelance work. It was a [...]
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Filed under: Embodiment, Health on 28 November 2006 @ 5:45
I recently subscribed to a couple of Time.com RSS feeds on science and health. On the health side, In Perils of the Lonely Brain, Jeffrey Kluger writes about research on how feelings of isolation negatively effect executive function. In What We’ll be Dying From, Michael Lemonick notes a World Health Organization report on the top [...]
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Filed under: Embodiment on 8 October 2006 @ 10:00
I’ve been absorbed lately bringing up a rebirth of the Annotated Bibliography for Massage Practitioners. A lot of the books come from my own library. Others occur because I’m familar with the author or publisher. I’ve attempted to capture a perspective that extends far beyond technique to include the interpersonal, sociological, and psychological implications of [...]
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Filed under: Embodiment on 28 May 2006 @ 15:34
In my upcoming Massage Today Column for June (as in up any day now), I was writing about embodiment and refer to the philosophical framework of Merleau-Ponty. In my starting post here, I referred to things that are liminal (neither this nor that) and of a threshold. I noticed a book chapter abstract by Gilsenan [...]
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