Category Archives: Personal

Heavy rain hit at 3:30PM on Tuesday. A total of 1.37 inches fell in my neighborhood during one hour. This not only overwhelmed the sewage system. This created buckled roads and a sinkhole under major road intersections right around my home. My home is locked in a neighborhood locked with only a couple of ways [...]

I am fortunate to be in a graduate study with a couple of women who study what media has done to destroy women’s self perception. They say that the term ‘beauty’ has been redefined to a look that is impossible to achieve. They have a great blog about their research and their presentations at Beauty-Redefined.net. [...]

My joints are so achy. I am miserable and suspect that my vitamin D is low, again. This problem is so vexing for me because I do not feel comfortable going outside to get a huge dose of sunshine. I had 50 cancerous spots burned off my hands, arms, and face a couple of months [...]

My favorite vitamin D3 pills are found in the organic supplements section of a Kroger grocery store. They are called “Naturally Preferred Vitamin D3″ (1,000 IU). These are wonderful little pills because they digest easily and work like a charm. I have also been noticing the sustained popularity of my vitamin D blog posts. In [...]

Today was a good day teaching. I taught my web design students at my University of Utah class the basics of coding a web page. For most of the 16 students, this was their first experience coding a web page, and their first time connecting to a remote web server to upload files. They all [...]

I have a couple of new friends in my new graduate program of Communication Ph.D. at the University of Utah. I have met two fellow, beautiful Ph.D. students, Lindsay and Lexie Kite who are fighting the redefinition of beauty. Look at Barbie and marketing ads. All “beautiful” women are size 0 with perfect features. These [...]