By Bonnie Hartley
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN — It’s been two years since Malcolm Gladwell wrote “Blink.” Since then “thin-slicing” has permanently moved out of the esoteric journals into our mass consciousness to become a part of us and a way to {read more...}
There’s a line in Hoodwinked, one of my favorite movies, “Words don’t go around by themselves.” There are words that go around and around in a widening gyre casting a shadow so large they- can’t possibly belong to only one {read more...}
By Bonnie Hartley
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN — It seems we can finally eat our egg whites and our yolks too. Whatever the scrambled myths about eggs in the past, when you come across a good egg the whole truth is sunny {read more...}
By Bonnie Hartley
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN — In that all-too-often sparse and gloomy room where employees go to shovel in a quick lunch, water themselves and chat, the seeds of morale are sown. Eventually, what grows out of it prospers possibility {read more...}
By Bonnie Hartley
BROOKLYN — This is a story about Christmas day for the ones who wish they could gift more but don’t have the pay. With white sales and red sales and stocking stuff specials, it would seem someone might {read more...}
By Bonnie Hartley
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN — I don’t get the flu or a cold anymore. I used to. Now at the first report of these dastardly bugs invading every public venue known to man, woman, child, and outdoor pet, I {read more...}
By Bonnie Hartley
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN — It doesn’t matter this was the year Youtube made video communicating by the masses as popular as mass communication. There’s still plenty of blogging going on. And so, while the thought of a running {read more...}
By Bonnie Hartley
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
If life is a banquet, as Auntie Mame said, then for goodness sake let us not starve. Oh, and if possible, let there be food.
Every year at the Thanksgiving table each member of our growing family, including the little ones, {read more...}
By Bonnie Hartley
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN — Over the past few years, I’ve been enjoying foods from local farms where raw milk and butter are also available. When a local homeopath recently suggested I buy some of their raw dairy goods, {read more...}
By Bonnie Hartley
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN — As I walked into my pilates class and unrolled my mat, the instructor informed us she’d just been watching Oprah and Dr. Mehmet Oz talking about his 90-day live longer, feel younger plan and {read more...}
By Bonnie Hartley
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN — For the past several weeks there’s been enough rain to make one think about building an ark. Cold, damp, and grey is common fall weather, but by last Thursday it didn’t matter how many {read more...}
By Bonnie Hartley
According to a man nicknamed Batman, there’s nothing like a glass of water to cure just about anything from a headache to MS. Water and a little sea salt, that is. Over twenty years and throughout several medical and lay publications this medical doctor revealed {read more...}
By Bonnie Hartley
It’s not true for every smoker, but on average, smokers weigh seven to eight pounds less than their non-smoking counterparts. They also have a significantly higher risk for heart disease, lung disease, cancer, chronic colds, flu, and {read more...}
By Bonnie Hartley
Like the adage suggests, you could be full of raw energy and tangy motivation but at our age, it’s not about the glint and manner of youth, it’s about urine pH and fermented apples.
By Bonnie Hartley
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN — We say it’s the little things. But it often takes really big things to remind us just how much the little things mean.
I never would have imagined the power of a Luden’s cough drop until I offered one to
