May 17, 2026 — Setúbal, Portugal I am a retired nurse. I have been carefully observing my own body for fifty years. I keep spreadsheets. I ran elimination diets before they were talked about in mainstream […]
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When the Food Noise Stopped I read an article in the New York Times recently about GLP-1 drugs, the weight loss medications that have taken medicine by storm. The researchers were astonished by something they hadn’t
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What Nobody Tells You About Eating Well Abroad I almost got arrested buying groceries. Not really, but it felt that way. And understanding why it happened taught me something important about what it actually takes to
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A Story About AI, Courage, and Finding Home. People ask me how I picked Setúbal. Had I been there before? No.Did I have relatives there? No.Did I speak Portuguese? A few words, learned in the past
Setúbal, Portugal feels like home and I have never been there. I have been thinking about leaving the United States since 2016. Not casually. Seriously. But I live on a modest fixed income, and I could
It Feels Like Home and I’ve Never Even Been There Read Post »
It feels like home. Isn’t that strange?It is not strange at all. I have not been there. Not in person. But I have walked the streets on Street View. I have mapped the route from R.