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How to Age Gracefully – the Whole Hog

by Holly Hickman Get Wise

Dusk. A full moon and an Indian paintbrush sky loomed over the Oklahoma prairie. A coyote (“kah-YOTE”) howled somewhere in the vicinity, but just for a flash. How stunningly quiet can our lives be when we remove ourselves from the hustle and flow of the daily grind. I had pulled over to the side of [...]

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Bending into life

by Holly Hickman Get Wise

I’ve already told you of my unabiding love for dance and dancers: the body in motion, to me, is the most moving and purest of poetry. I also love the metaphor of dance — leaning, bending, aching, twisting and stretching into the far crevices of life. Dance, to me, symbolizes how we synchronize ourselves with [...]

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Three Books that Will Make You Smarter

by Holly Hickman Get Wise

Three excellent works that will make you, in no particular order, a better cook, a (perhaps) more global citizen and, possibly, a science journalism addict. Don’t miss ‘em!

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George “Swoony” Eggs. Plus: Training the Brain to Think Visually

by Holly Hickman Get Going

I’ve been working on a food podcast for my fabulous email subscribers: it’s a foolproof play-by-play (of how to make “George Swoony Eggs”) that you can put on your iPod and take to your stove. These eggs are truly scrumptious, so if George Clooney ever does sit his fine tush at your kitchen table, don’t [...]

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Weekend Happy: a list of current faves

by Holly Hickman Get Wise

Fabulous Friday Fun — here are some links to songs, books, sites and other fabulous little tidbits to start your weekend off right!

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It’s Called Geology, Not Sin

by Holly Hickman Get Wise

It was inevitable — stories about how “God spared the survivors” in Haiti, about how some evangelists arrived at the particularly egregious conclusion that Haitians were being punished for their “sins,” and about the “first church services” being held in a country on the brink of the Stone Age — all flooded the wires today. [...]

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