A Weekly Column on Being Human by Wellness Specialist Elizabeth Clayton
Apr 10
“All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison.”
Apr 03
The worst part about life under the dominion of a toxic friend is the way that person manages to move in and take over your mind and body.
Mar 27
While the idea of honey straight from the hive and milk straight from the cow has great appeal, I’ve always been way too leery of microbes to mess with that. Pasteurization all the way for me.
Mar 21
I was still a few miles from home when out of the blue and for no predictable reason I hit the wall.
Mar 14
During a leadership team meeting in an earlier career, we’d been asked to go around the table and offer observations about where each of our colleagues could improve.
Butterflies in Brazil? The season 2 plot line of The Bear? The truth of our interconnection is an unknown infinite.
Feb 22
I’d been trying to write a story about a close friend who had died, reaching for something beyond my grasp with only puny words to get me there.
Feb 14
If the future of your committed relationship could be predicted with 90% accuracy within 15 minutes based on the presence or absence of four factors when you fight, wouldn’t that be helpful to know?
Feb 07
Putting the house to order before work, I pick up the packaging tape dispenser left on the dining room table and notice the tape has slipped out from the slot it threads through.
Feb 01
Though cancer deaths in the United States have been falling since 1991, that is no longer.