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My Journey to Health Part III – Nutritional Regimen

I took all that I learned about lowering LDL cholesterol and developed a plan. I had studied all the nuts, fruits, vegetables, fish and so on. Things to eat more of and things to avoid. I analyzed what I was doing at the time and realized there were many things I could change immediately. IContinue reading “My Journey to Health Part III – Nutritional Regimen”

My Journey to Health

Quick links to related posts: Nutrition Exercise The Power of Habit Goal Setting Motivation Other thoughts and advice Data I had thought of many other titles for this series of entries. How to lower your cholesterol in 100 days. How to lose weight while eating more. There were many other ways to title this. AtContinue reading “My Journey to Health”

My Journey to Health Part II – Researching How to Lower LDL Cholesterol

Upon learning my cholesterol was mildly elevated, I started looking online for strategies to lower LDL. What I found: Medications are another route to lowering cholesterol, but it is not addressing the source of the problem, only the symptoms. That strategy will eventually stop being effective and can have undesirable side effects. I spent daysContinue reading “My Journey to Health Part II – Researching How to Lower LDL Cholesterol”

The uniquely human Robert and my journey with autism

(PART I) My dear wife and I were living in the Middle East from 2012. We were newlywed and had not given a great deal of thought to having children. I had older children (now 30 and 26) and we had not discussed trying to have additional children. Around 2016, we discussed having children andContinue reading “The uniquely human Robert and my journey with autism”

Cocotal and our new Villa in Punta Cana 2020-2022 – Part I

In late 2019, I had decided to leave Abu Dhabi and retire to the Dominican Republic. I need to write an entire entry about that decision and the process that followed as it became very stressful and convoluted. Nevertheless, we arrived in Santiago, Dominican Republic on the 9th of March, the twins’ second birthday. TheyContinue reading “Cocotal and our new Villa in Punta Cana 2020-2022 – Part I”

Getting a Driver’s License in the Dominican Republic

We moved to the Dominican Republic in March of 2020 during the onset of the pandemic. We had many different plans, but of course due to Covid, those plans were altered. My wife is from the Dominican Republic, so we decided to purchase a house in the Bavaro area. One problem was that I wasContinue reading “Getting a Driver’s License in the Dominican Republic”

Renewing passports

While the US passport is desired by many in the world for a variety of reasons, renewing it is highly inefficient, expensive and takes a ridiculous amount of time. https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php The US passport ranks behind about 20 other countries now. This is based on how many countries one can travel to without visa or gettingContinue reading “Renewing passports”