http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Bette+Dowdell Medicines and Remedies Bette Dowdell Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=359788&ca=Medicines+and+Remedies The incidence of thyroid disease doubled in the last thirty-or-so years. Auto-immune diseases, which relate to the endocrine system, are skyrocketing. So, too, are diseases of the brain, such as autism, Parkinson’s Disease and Alzheimer Disease. A significant part of the problem is the dangers that... Medicines and Remedies Bette Dowdell Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=344703&ca=Medicines+and+Remedies I’ve been dealing with an underperforming pituitary gland most of my life–possibly from a seemingly minor head injury when a drunk driver hit my parent’s car during my eleventh month. However it happened, the deal is this: When the pituitary ain’t happy, ain’t nothing happy. The endocrine system, of... Self Help Bette Dowdell Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=264782&ca=Self+Help A man stops to ask directions, only to be told, "You can't get there from here. If you were in Freeport, you could get there, but you can't get there from here." So he asks how to get to Freeport. "See. That’s the hard part. You can't get to Freeport." We laugh, but too many of us are behaving as if... Self Help Bette Dowdell Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=258455&ca=Self+Help God created Lucifer, now known as Satan, as one of the three top angels in Heaven. Lucifer had responsibility for the angels assigned to worship, while Michael leads the warrior angels who oppose evil and unrighteousness, and Gabriel guides the angels assigned to bring God’s messages to people. As p... Self Help Bette Dowdell Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=244784&ca=Self+Help I talk to pretty much everybody. Starting conversations with strangers is my normal modus operandi. I mean, why stand in a line mute, an island unto myself, when I can have a perfectly lovely conversation with somebody I haven’t yet met? And I don’t talk about the weather. I talk about life. My life... Advice Bette Dowdell Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=237421&ca=Advice All kinds of people push conformity. But why? Fitting in may sound harmless, but it leads to all kinds of misery. We need to talk about this. Teachers extol fitting in as a form of crowd control, pointing to the most passive kid in the room as the standard of model behavior. Warping the hearts of ch... Business Bette Dowdell Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=224928&ca=Business Some say, "Good things come to those who wait." It’s a funny thing, though. Good things almost never come when waiting's all that's going on. We shouldn’t let our hopes soar sky-high if all we do is hang out. Success won’t drop in like an uninvited guest. Then there are those who like to talk things... Advice Bette Dowdell Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=221276&ca=Advice Somehow, despite all our hopes, dreams and efforts, life became a train-wreck. We may or may not have had an inkling of the impending doom. Perhaps we were in denial or maybe completely unaware of what was swirling around just out of sight. We may have seen it coming but didn’t realize its speed–or... Society Bette Dowdell Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=206392&ca=Society Some years ago, new residents in town, we ventured into church one Sunday. There were five of us: a set of parents, sufficiently presentable to fit in well in just about any club, and three cute-as-a-button children: fourth-grade Chrissie, second-grade Chuckie, and Rachel, my three-year-old niece wh... Politics Bette Dowdell Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=201598&ca=Politics You don’t hear a lot of talk about duty these days. It seems to have gone out of style. Out of consciousness, too. People don’t think much about duty anymore. The lifestyle more in vogue today is to coast along and go with the flow. Goals are considered quaint. Consequences aren’t considered at all....