Category Archives: Our Primate Nature

Dig Those Roots

Posted on August 11, 2015 by liveoaklinda

There’re so many amazing science stories in the daily news – it’s hard to keep up. Yeah yeah – now you know my pathetic excuse for another two-month post-lapse. Since we all know the topic I love most though, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Cackling Crone, Humans Love Food!, Our Primate Nature | Tagged carbohyrates, human evolution, Karen Hardy, roasted roots, root vegetables, uso, women digging roots | 3 Comments

Flight Paths & Funerals

Posted on June 8, 2015 by liveoaklinda

Sadly, our Live Oak home is no longer underneath the SFO flight path. For decades I would lie in bed, trying to fall asleep, when I’d hear the approaching muted, far off roar of a jet, presumably from Shanghai or … Continue reading →

Posted in Cackling Crone, Just an Everyday Life, Our Primate Nature | Tagged dying too young, flight path, luck of the draw, mah jongg, malaysia flight 370, sfo flight path changes, timing is everything | 11 Comments

Evolution for Everybody

Posted on May 20, 2015 by liveoaklinda

I know polls say not even a majority of Americans accept that evolution is a result of natural processes, but this fact is nevertheless the #1 choice of a recent California central coast art cabal. This admittedly-not-scientific poll over the past … Continue reading →

Posted in Our Primate Nature | Tagged 17th Avenue Studios, evolution, the upright thinkers, zoonomia | Leave a comment

The Drone Age

Posted on April 30, 2015 by liveoaklinda

About a year ago, a nephew excitedly revealed his new electronic toy at an afternoon family BBQ at our home. Since I had just that morning, while preparing the meal, dropped a pot of boiling water on my leg (which … Continue reading →

Posted in Cackling Crone, Just an Everyday Life, Our Primate Nature | Tagged buzzing flying toys, drones, griffinflies, personal drones, uas, unmanned aircraft systems | 3 Comments

Not Aging Well

Posted on April 7, 2015 by liveoaklinda

These days, if I stand still too long, my (thankfully-still-functional) feet seem to sink noticeably further into that squishy phase of contemporary (North American female human) life when one can no longer ignore the preponderance of pop-ups, adverts, magazines, robocalls, inserts, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cackling Crone, Just an Everyday Life, Our Primate Nature | Tagged aging, antibiotics, benefits of bipedalism, boomers, bucket list, getting old ain't for sissies, grandmas, gravity, neoteny, women aging | 7 Comments

1-11-15 from 1115

Posted on January 11, 2015 by liveoaklinda

Finally catching my breath in the new year. Can I still say it or is it just too yesterday? – well whatever – I wish it for you. A Good Year. Jeez, what a relief that the ‘holidays’ are over … Continue reading →

Posted in Cackling Crone, Just an Everyday Life, Our Primate Nature | Tagged female bonding, happy new year, old friends, primate grooming, women's health collective | 3 Comments

there’s still no cure for dying

Posted on December 10, 2014 by liveoaklinda

You’re probably rolling your eyes at this apparent not-joy-t0-the-world holiday season post. But hang in here with me – this topic could fuel unusual & maybe even helpful family dinner conversations. Still skeptical? Well, just remind yourself that there’s nothing … Continue reading →

Posted in Cackling Crone, Just an Everyday Life, Our Primate Nature | Tagged Alzheimer's disease, american immortal, compassionate death, death, ezekiel emanuel, old age, palliative care, regina spektor | 11 Comments

Encyclopedias & Other Precious Stuff

Posted on November 3, 2014 by liveoaklinda

Yikes. It’s been over two months since my last post. I’m trying to not feel delinquent. I have lots of excuses. Tell me you’ve missed me! Mostly, I’ve been consumed by stuff. My stuff. Our stuff. Our kids’ stuff. Our … Continue reading →

Posted in Just an Everyday Life, Our Primate Nature | Tagged incrementalism, old encyclopedias, shedding, stuff | 9 Comments

We’re All Migrants

Posted on August 22, 2014 by liveoaklinda

We’re all migrants from somewhere. There are probably a few of us left in our (so far apparent) homo sapiens hometown of East Africa, but the rest of us are migrants, or children & grandchildren of migrants. These days we love … Continue reading →

Posted in A Warming Planet, Our Primate Nature | Tagged human migration, immigration reform, migrant, migration, out of africa | 4 Comments

Carrying Water With Neandertals

Posted on May 15, 2014 by liveoaklinda

A Short Paleo Fantasy Setting: Along a creek somewhere in, say, what we now call Tuscany Situation: The Middle Paleolithic Era, about 45K years ago Starring: Neanda & Sapia, two middle-aged (slightly different) hominin* women [Scene opens as Neanda & … Continue reading →

Posted in Cackling Crone, Humans Love Food!, Just an Everyday Life, Our Primate Nature | Tagged carry water, daughters, grandmas, human neandertal sex, middle paleolithic, neandertal, neanderthal, women's friendship | 3 Comments