Ok, I’ll be honest, I’m annoyed with this current administration. Annoyed is an understatement. Today I’m feeling petty. So I’ve decided to look at the nutritional guidelines put out by the folks at MAHA (Make America Healthy Again, for those of you who decided to go off grid after November 2024).
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Graffiti Alley
Happy New Year!
Ok, so we are 12 days into the New Year (2026) and it hasn’t exactly been a stellar start for our Country – but hopefully you are all finding some sort of peace and joy in your daily lives.
My friends and I decided we would start the new year with art and beauty. Our first stop…Graffiti Alley in Baltimore.
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Do You Know What a Food Desert is?
At first, you might hear the term “food desert” and assume it has more to do with the environment’s ability to support crop growth. Not to worry, humans have made an impressive commitment to growing produce and livestock in unlikely places – often to the detriment of said environment.
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Maryland Lakes
Did you know that Maryland does not have any natural lakes? In fact, it is the ONLY U.S. State without any natural lakes! That is only possible, I suppose, due to arbitrary boundary lines; however, the lines do exist, so now we have this fun factoid. The reason for there being no natural lakes (we have over 100 man-made bodies of water) has to do with multiple factors.
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Dark Winter Walks
We walk a regular set of paths everyday. One of our girls is reactive towards other dogs while on a leash. She’s a gentle girl, but suffers from a lot of anxiety, especially since we moved her away from her home in Germany. I’ve seen a similar response in my son. They were even the same chronological age. We moved him away and he simply fell out of sorts in the unfamiliar spaces in which he found himself.
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Decolonizing the Mind
Imagine spending a thousand lifetimes caring for these lands only for billionaires to exploit them in an instant – the same way colonists exploited the people.
Health and Wellness v. Medicine
There is a great deal of conversation happening these days surrounding health and medicine, thanks to a new faction of influencers who have rooted themselves in the MAHA movement (a Trumpian health campaign, Make America Healthy Again). Much like the MAGA movement, it is fueled by misinformation and emotions. As someone who believes in the power of blending eastern and western medicine together, I find someone like RFK Jr. to be a danger, as he seems to prefer blending science with pseudoscience to sell his ideas, so…let’s talk about some of these spaces of health and wellness (and since it is a bit longer of a post, I’ll break it out into four sections).
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A One Health Take on Halloween
This is a reboot of a post I made a year ago when I first started my blog. It is no less relevant today – maybe even more so with our current political leadership obstinately ignoring environmental health concerns and families struggling with a government shutdown. That said, here is a piece on Halloween!
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Travel: A Giant Rock and a Mix of Cultures, but also Monkeys
Did you know there is a British territory, a peninsula, connected to Spain via a sandy isthmus (which mostly holds an airport)? It is known as Gibraltar (Arabic: Jabal Tariq) and the bulk of the terrain is a giant rock, aptly named “the rock of Gibraltar”, with a smaller area of low, flat land surrounding the rock, which is where most of the houses, hotels, shops, and restaurants are, as well as the ports, obviously. Gibraltar generates most of its revenue through the UK military, tourism, as well as the shipping industry that brings in exports and such – but I’m not an economist, so this is the least interesting thing about Gibraltar to me.
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Silence of the Swallowtail
“It’s easier to run down the mountain than to walk it!” my partner shouted to me as we were descending Humpback Rock. Except, he wasn’t the one carrying the backpack with our waters and half-eaten charcuterie box from the day before (precariously wrapped in a cup and some napkins).
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