From the monthly archives:

September 2008

Water: Is eight enough?

by chas on September 29, 2008

I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
Dear Charles,
I read on a list on the internet of 20 Things We Learned Were Wrong This Year that the canard about drinking 8 pints of water daily was wrong.  It also said that tea and coffee counted as liquid where i’d been told they didn’t. [...]

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taming difficult people part 1

by chas on September 24, 2008

true story
i posted earlier about ryan higgins and “his” mind movies, and may post on that again, as the story has unfolded a bit since then. today, however, i’m writing about the back story, which is a perfect example of how not to treat difficult people. you know, people who don’t agree with you. now [...]

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Fear of Food

by chas on September 22, 2008

I Ain’t No Doctor
a weekly health column by charles faris, hhc
Dear Chas,
I’m afraid of conventional food, yet i don’t have the scratch necessary to buy all organic. What can i do? Eating is becoming very difficult for me.
—Chicken Little
Dear Chicken,
Thanks for your question, which in one variation or another is on many a mind these [...]

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awww nuts!

by chas on September 18, 2008

so it all started with a jar of nuts. raw cashews. love ‘em. too much maybe. leaned on ‘em when times were tough and now they always seem to be answer numero uno. as in:
i’m feeling a little hungry (grab that jar of nuts!)
i’m bored  (grab those nuts!)
oh, look at that pile of important papers [...]

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Developing a Healthy Hunger

by chas on September 15, 2008

I Ain’t No Doctor
a weekly health column by charles faris, hcc
Charles, 
Like many people, I work too hard and find myself stressed under deadlines on a regular basis. My stress often goes to my stomach and I can suffer from a poor appetite, so I don’t feel like eating and would rather keep working. What can I do [...]

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what was that about hats?

by chas on September 5, 2008

By the time it came to the edge of the forest the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was [...]

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