If you live in the United States east of the Rockies, and your horse show signs of dizziness, ataxia, or confusion, you should alert your veterinarian to the possibility of EPM: Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis. Though I’ve owned or looked after horses for over 30 years, I had never heard of this disease until earlier this week, when a report came from western Kentucky that a horse there
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According to Adam One, the Fall of Man was multidimensional. The ancestral primates fell out of the trees; then they fell from vegetarianism into meat-eating. Then they fell from instinct into reason, and thus into technology; from simple signals into complex grammar, and thus into humanity; from firelessness into fire, and then into weaponry; and from seasonal mating into an
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My mother made this fabulous peanut butter pie as one of several desserts for Christmas dinner. We liked it so much that she made us another one for New Year. We’re not used to such a surfeit of sugar, and so retreated from rich sweets once the holidays had passed. When we recover, we’ll definitely try this pie again. Here’s
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