Kevin Harper

Reading Salisbury, Part 1: The Old Wisdom We Threw Away

First in a series working slowly through “The Relation of Alimentation and Disease” by James H. Salisbury, M.D. (1888). You can read along for free; the link is at the bottom. I’m 57 years old. I have spent a good part of those years being wrong about things

Hope Is My Number One Drug

Henry David Thoreau observed in Walden that "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." That is unquestionably true. Life is just really fucking hard. I've got almost six decade in the rear view mirror and I don't remember a single moment when,