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Staying Healthy

by Sheila Collins | Sep 19, 2014 | Health, Health and Wellness, Science, Technology and the Environment, Technology

Mother was a nurse who fully subscribed to the principles of the medical model that surrounded her. Like many health professionals of her day, since she worked nights at a hospital helping to deliver babies, she took pills to get to sleep and other pills to help her...

Feedback Part Two

by Sheila Collins | Feb 11, 2013 | Health, Personal Stories, Technology

Feedback is the return of a portion of the output of a process or system to the input, especially when used to maintain performance or to control a system or process. My friend Pam got an electronic activity tracker for Christmas, and like I’ve done with other good...

The Day of the Mother Has Arrived

by Sheila Collins | Jul 21, 2012 | Technology, Women, Girls & the Feminine

Everywhere I look I seem to see a pregnant lady. This is more likely to happen in the summer time, when women aren’t wearing layers of clothing to keep warm. And I must admit, this particular noticing could be related to the fact my son and his partner are expecting...

Higgs Boson and Me

by Sheila Collins | Jul 13, 2012 | Songs, Technology

As a senior person committed to life long learning, I’ve always been fascinated by physics. And though I usually feel my images of the subject are fuzzy figures a bit farther than my vision can decipher, the struggle seems worth it. Who doesn’t want to better...

Circles of Concern

by Sheila Collins | Mar 14, 2012 | Technology, the Big Body, Women, Girls & the Feminine

I overheard several of my women friends admitting to one another that they don’t read the newspaper or watch television. Nearly a week after a gunman went into a local mental hospital, shot one man dead and wounded seven others before a campus policeman killed him,...

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by Sheila Collins | Feb 22, 2012 | Art & Life, Personal Stories, Technology, Writing

One of the games we play in my writer’s group is to challenge one another to write a response to a single word using only 100 words. It’s a discipline much needed in these days of sound bites, blogs, and tweets. Here’s my 100 word response to this...

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