Top Ten Paleo & Primal Snacks For Kids & Adults Outdoors — When I was a child and went camping with my family, we packed a lot of sandwiches and s’mores ingredients, and ate a bunch of burgers, hotdogs, and chips, all of which are Paleo or Primal Diet nightmares, loaded with bread, sugar, cheese, and so on. What my family, and…

Breaking Bad Showrunner Spills The Beans Breaking Bad was arguably one of the best TV shows ever broadcast on television. It heralded the beginning of the Golden Age of TV in 2008, and the gap between television show and movie narrowed to the width of a thread and has since more or less disappeared. The show…

Jesus & the Tale as Old as Time — Researchers have traced the origin of some of our most iconic fairy tales, also known as folktales or folklore, to between 2,500 and 6,000 years old. “Beauty and the Beast” and “Rumpelstiltskin”, while written down in the 17th and 18th centuries, can be traced back to the emergence of the…

Digging up beaches to accelerate the end of humanity — About six hundred million years ago, a vast shallow sea covered the land we call Wisconsin. The climate was tropical, as Wisconsin had drifted down near the Equator. If you were to drive east back then, on Interstate 94 from Minneapolis, MN to Eau Claire, WI, you would have been…

With a little skill, a little brute force, and a little luck — I started reading the Expanse novels by James S.A. Corey (the pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) when I was going through a weird and messy divorce, living in my parent’s 1970s Winnebago while taking care of a herd of large black pigs. The Winnebago was parked…

Embrace The Suck To Push Through — There is a paradox in life. You are on your own, but so is everyone else. We are all on our own, together. Any day can bring sadness and depression. Any day can be rainy and overcast. Usually, though, we can see warning signs when our mental weather is going…

You Can Be Codependent No More — In a healthy relationship there is a fluctuating give and take, day in and day out. Some days one partner gives more, and some days they give less. In a healthy relationship, there is a good balance that evens out over the weeks and months. Life throws a ton of…

Support Local Pollinators With These Flowers! — The following plants are local to the Midwest Region of the United States, but if your bee garden is somewhere else in North America, chances are high that there is a similar local species. …

The 4 Demented Stages of a Narcissist’s Strategy — In my experience it is almost impossible to understand that you are involved with a narcissist until it is too late. That is because it only becomes glaringly obvious right when you have invested everything into the relationship. The word “narcissist” gets thrown around a lot these days. The Mayo…