Journeys and Destinations
…thoughts on hiking, med school, and life… The last couple of weeks have been a bit of a whirlwind. First there was the Ancestral Health Symposium (more on that later- if I ever get my thoughts...
View ArticleAn ode to the soft-boiled egg…
Sandy has come and gone (at least in my part of the country- last I heard she was still making her presence felt somewhere in the middle of the country), but for me (and many fellow New Jerseyans)...
View ArticleWilderness Medicine- Desert Pic of the Day
I have spent only 5 of the last 25 nights in a bed (4 different beds, to be precise). At this point I feel a touch claustrophobic in bathrooms and feeling clean is certainly a novelty. My Wilderness...
View ArticleMoab- More than expected
I’ve been hesitant to write this post. This blog is certainly not a travel blog, and it was never intended to be a place where I posted my exciting travels (and to be honest, during the final years of...
View ArticleA Secret Handshake
I always get excited when I meet a fellow student in the medical world who has an interest in evolutionary and ancestral thinking. It doesn’t happen often, but I’ve twice run into students who, by...
View ArticleThanksgiving
There are so many things that are worth writing about on and around Thanksgiving. For those of us interested in ancestral health and evolutionarily-appropriate eating it’s fun to explore what a...
View ArticleAdventures in Ecuador…
I have a rather embarrassing admission to make: when I first started looking at taking a trip to the Galapagos three months ago I didn’t actually know that the islands were part of Ecuador. Two months...
View ArticleA New Year’s Update
I struggled with the title of this post for a while. It’s a long time since I’ve written anything (for the blog), and I wanted the title to be catchy, edgy, maybe even with a touch of double entendre....
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