Americans have an interesting fascination with their health and well-being from the perspectives of both groundbreaking advances in western medicine, and a continued exploration of alternative medicines and healthy lifestyles hailed by many, scorned by some, manipulated by con men and brought to fruition by the true believers willing to show the way. One such groundbreaking […]
Rhode Island licenses doctors and dentists, nurses, midwives, athletic trainers and dieticians for the medical community. They also license acupuncturists and their assistants, chiropractors, massage therapists and interpreters for the deaf. They do not license naturopathic physicians. To find out why, I went to the Department of Health, which issues all licensing permits for RI. A supervisor said […]
I soon found myself apologizing for being “presumptuous” as I attempted to extract further details. It was unclear why I had been summoned for this interview in the first place. “How would you describe ______?” Surely this was some kind of pre-holiday farce and I was not in on it. What am I doing here? More […]
Last year around this time in the season, my restless friends and I began to develop a new hobby. Refusing to be kept indoors by the cold weather, we set out to the woods in pursuit of a new kind of adventure. Perhaps it could be described as culinary hiking, or maybe extreme picnicking. Either […]
Having enjoyed the one and only acupuncture treatment I experienced a few years ago, I eagerly accepted my editor’s assignment to cover Providence Community Acupuncture (PCA). I wondered, however, why this place? What makes it so special? PCA makes acupuncture accessible to everyone by allowing clients to pay at their comfort level, anywhere from $15 to […]
Ever found yourself wondering how to introduce a new sex act to your partner, or how to have orgasms that really hit the spot? If so, you’ve come to the right place! The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health will be publishing a monthly question and answer series for all your sex and sexuality-related inquiries. […]
The notion that creative people are a little nuts has been around for generations. While that may or may not be true, there is certainly plenty of evidence available to suggest a connection between creative types and mental illness. Aristotle noted, “Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry and the arts have all […]
Dear Dr. Brilliant Cliché; I am so sick of the hypocrisy! Every New Year’s Eve, I listen to people babble incoherently about all the great resolutions they are starting tomorrow. Tomorrow comes and some of them manage to actually make it one day. I’ve seen them go as long as a month. Then — boom! That’s it. […]
This year my son has asked Santa for three unreasonably expensive gifts: a Polar Express train ($400); WiiU ($300) and a Kindle Fire HD ($130). He thankfully knows that Santa will bring only one of these items, as opposed to expecting all three. He kindly left it up to Santa to decide. Given his budget, […]
If you follow poetry and know anything about spoken word and the art’s local action and inertia, you should know Christopher Johnson’s name. To say that Chris Johnson is a colorful and interesting guy is less than an understatement. He is energized, mysteriously humorous and a walking billboard for where the spoken word performance art thing has taken us. […]