My wife's recovery from her November, 2012 pelvic and left hip reconstruction surgery is progressing well, but slowly, and not without some at-times formidable difficulties. For the past couple months, I have been dealing with sometime severe stress and have been working at relaxation response ...

Why did that post twice?

Then there are those events that are not expected.

My wife and I moved into our little country home in 2001, when it was about 15 years old.

The house is a modular house (made in sections in a factory) set on a concrete and stick-built foundation and basement.

I happen to be certified by the ...

So now we have enflamed posts regarding the Archive!!!! That was not the purpose of this thread, but rather it was a question as to why those who were born unique or became so early in life seem not to participate here.

Without question the best site on the internet for the person with an ...

As I remember, I recognized that my life did not fit into any purely binary gender scheme before I learned to talk.

I have never found myself to quite be a boy/man nor to quite be a girl/woman in any traditional sense. Rather, I am as though an assortment of some aspects of male, some of female ...

I believe I have properly made room reservations for this year's MoM.

I plan to get to an Interstate rest area Friday night, one close enough to the new MoM location that it will be easy to wake up and drive from the rest area to the MoM well before the start of breakfast on Saturday morning.

I ...

After many decades of studying the relationship of autism with human society, I have gradually been carried to an understanding that, if there is a mental disorder or disease associated with "the autism spectrum," the main disease is associated with being "neurotypical."

Since the DSM-5™ came upon ...

I am beginning to have a very strong notion to the effect that the existence of life, in any and every form, critically depends upon biological diversity; diversity in terms of different species, diversity within a species, and diversity within every organism of every species.

When, in 1986, after ...

In the realm of quantum mechanical physics is something named, "The Pauli Exclusion Principle." It may be stated, with at least ample oversimplification, to be as a plausible fact, that no two of anything can have exactly the same quantum state (please note that my grasp of "quantum state" includes ...

A little grasp of anatomy may be informative.

A typical scrotum has an outer layer of epidermis, dead keratinized epithelial cells. The lumen of the gut is made of living cells, without any "skin."

Living human cells do not necessarily require a covering of dead cells to survive and thrive; a very ...