: About Me

I was born in Washington D.C. and raised in Washington (the state, not the city), Maryland, Japan, and India. It was fun. I have two parents who recently retired to Arizona, a brother and three sisters, all of them scattered about the globe.
For the last ten years or so I've lived in Utah, where I graduated from BYU in English with minors in psychology and philosophy. I worked in the housekeeping department of a mental hospital for several years, which was fascinating and sometimes fun, but bad for the back. These days I go to school part time, trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up, and sponging off my excellent husband, who has a nice job as a computer programmer.

I've been a fairly devout Christian all my life, a feminist since high school, and a vegetarian for seven years. I'm still trying to figure out how all that fits together. I've always been an avid reader, and over the years I've drifted from fiction and literature to non-fiction of all kinds.

I know too much about ...

a lot of trivial things.

My parents always told me ...

as long as you can still get a job with all those piercings, I guess it's okay.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be an English teacher

My favorite memory ...

my aunt's house with the silver and black jungle guest room and the pink-orange shag carpet in the bathroom.

Why I write ...

to borrow a quote, "I don't know what I think until I see what I say."

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading-anything I take a mind to. Watching-Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD (no cable). Listening-X96 alternative radio, Beethoven's symphonies.

My first job ...

day camp counselor. I was good with the rowdy kids.

My best moment ...

meeting my husband (aw, how sweet).

My inspiration ...

My very conservative but oddly open-minded parents.

Health & Fitness > Nutrition & Health Issues Can we believe governmental guidelines about food and nutrition?

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Years of good, solid scientific research has gone into the governmental guidelines on food and nutrition. These guidelines summarize huge quantities of nutrition research and put it into straightforward, understandable terms. It's easy to be confused by all the diet books and articles that surround us, but it's hard to go wrong following the government's nutritional guidelines. Sure, politics sometimes get mixed up in this-the meat and dairy industries, for example, lobby against any suggestion that we should eat less of their products. Soda and fast food companies lobby for looser nutriti...

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