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Allergic Asthma: A cup of strong coffee or tea can act as a weak bronchodilator for a short-term, mild effect.
Let’s not forget that 10 people die each day from asthma in the United States. It’s important to discuss any medication concerns and preferences about treatment with your doctor.
"The Teacher Who Couldn't Read"
The Teacher Who Couldn't Read: One Man's Triumph Over Illiteracy Paperback – December 29, 2017 by John Corcoran (Author) 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (68) 3.7 on Goodreads 408 ratings See all formats and editions "The Teacher Who Couldn't Read" is John Corcoran's life story of how he struggled through school without the basic skills of how to read or write and went on to become a college graduate and a high school teacher, still without these basic skills. National literacy advocate John Corcoran continues to help bring illiteracy out of the shadows with this autobiography, "The Teacher Who Couldn’t Read". It is the amazing true story of a man who triumphed over his illiteracy and who has become one of the nation's leading literacy advocates. His shocking and emotionally moving story—from being a child who was failed by the system, to an angry adolescent, a desperate college student, and finally an emerging adult reader—touched audiences of such national television shows as the Oprah Winfrey Show, 20/20, the Phil Donahue Show, and Larry King Live. His story was also featured in national magazines such as Esquire, Biography, Reader’s Digest, and People. "The Teacher Who Couldn't Read" is a gripping tale of triumph over America's national literacy crisis-- a story you'll thoroughly enjoy while being enlightened to a national tragedy.
Allergies become bronchitis in asthma patients when allergens (pollen, dander, dust) trigger chronic inflammation
Allergies become bronchitis in asthma patients when allergens (pollen, dander, dust) trigger chronic inflammation, forcing the airways to produce excess mucus and swell. This condition, known as allergic bronchitis or asthmatic bronchitis, manifests as persistent coughing, wheezing, and chest tightness that lasts longer than a typical cold.
When Allergies Become Bronchitis
Trigger Mechanism: Immune response releases substances like histamine, causing inflammation in the bronchial tubes, which is intensified by asthma.
Persistent Symptoms: A cough that lingers, especially at night, or produces excess mucus.
Respiratory Changes: Increased wheezing, shortness of breath, or chest discomfort/tightness.
Duration: While standard allergies pass, allergic bronchitis can linger for several weeks.
Signs to See a Doctor Seek medical attention if your cough lasts more than three weeks, you experience severe wheezing, or have shortness of breath.
Key Risk Factors & Management
Triggers: Prolonged exposure to pet dander, pollen, mold, or pollution.
Management: Use bronchodilators to open airways, steroids for inflammation, and avoid known allergens.
Prevention: Work with an allergist to manage sensitivities and potentially use allergy shots to reduce reaction severity.
“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
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“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
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“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and
emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages
and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our
society.”
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“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so
obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic
as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
― The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
― The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with
what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work,
realize it is play.”
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“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
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“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If
you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row
inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a
pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white
knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to
say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and
please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from
ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret,
so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone. Write like you
have a message from the king. Or don’t. Who knows, maybe you’re one of
the lucky ones who doesn’t have to.”
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“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim
you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and
drown. Instead you relax, and float.”
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“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
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“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”
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“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our
ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses
through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its
magnificence.”
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“The menu is not the meal.”
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“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the
same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”
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“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that
they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
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“The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.”
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“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of
time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an
infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an
absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is
almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not
realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than
present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We
confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the
world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful
tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.”
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“Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually
who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy
and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut
house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in
India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just
discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations,
at last you found out.”
― The Essential Alan Watts
― The Essential Alan Watts
“The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand
nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being
sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in
having the mind open and wholly receptive.”
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“Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake
up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone
to sleep.”
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“Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.”
― The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
― The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night,
we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well
and badly arranged constellations.”
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“Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all
unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it
is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no
other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live
for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point
everlastingly.”
― The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
― The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
“We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves
from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every
individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique
action of the total universe.”
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“A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.”
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“It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall.
Smash! And all that ink spread. And in the middle, it's dense, isn't it?
And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer and finer
and make more complicated patterns, see? So in the same way, there was a
big bang at the beginning of things and it spread. And you and I,
sitting here in this room, as complicated human beings, are way, way out
on the fringe of that bang. We are the complicated little patterns on
the end of it. Very interesting. But so we define ourselves as being
only that. If you think that you are only inside your skin, you define
yourself as one very complicated little curlicue, way out on the edge of
that explosion. Way out in space, and way out in time. Billions of
years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human
being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still
the big bang. But you are. Depends how you define yourself. You are
actually--if this is the way things started, if there was a big bang in
the beginning-- you're not something that's a result of the big bang.
You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process.
You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of
the universe, coming on as whoever you are. When I meet you, I see not
just what you define yourself as--Mr so-and- so, Ms so-and-so, Mrs
so-and-so--I see every one of you as the primordial energy of the
universe coming on at me in this particular way. I know I'm that, too.
But we've learned to define ourselves as separate from it. ”
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“Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick,
and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is
the most difficult of all things to know.”
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“Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream
that you wanted to dream. And that you could, for example, have the
power within one night to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time
you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this
adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have
every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of
75 years of total pleasure each, you would say "Well, that was pretty
great." But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't
under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know
what it's going to be. And you would dig that and come out of that and
say "Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?" And then you would get
more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out
gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream ...
where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you
are actually living today.”
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“Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal
now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we
are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded
present.”
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“What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are
conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A
convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is
absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ...
In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real
things.”
― The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
― The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
“When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else,
we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over
us.”
― The Way of Zen
― The Way of Zen
Valentina Gnup: Song from the Third Floor
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Saturday, March 14, 2026
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New Mexican biscochitos
Rolling wine biscotti dough thin and using cookie cutters is a popular way to make cut-out wine cookies (often called frollini or similar to New Mexican biscochitos) rather than the traditional knotted or ring-shaped ciambelle. This technique often results in a thin, crisp cookie, similar to traditional Mexican biscochitos that use a cookie cutter (like a 3-inch shape) rather than a rolled log.
Ray Oldenburg: He Coined the Term THIRD PLACE
Ray Oldenburg
Ray Oldenburg (1932-2022) is known internationally as author of The Great Good Place (1989/2023), in which he coined the term “third place” and made a case for the importance of informal public gathering places. He defined the term as “a generic designation for a great variety of public places that host the regular, voluntary, informal, and happily anticipated gatherings of individuals beyond the realms of home and work.” In contrast to first places (home) and second places (work), a third place allows an individual to put aside their concerns and simply enjoy the company and conversation around them.
Oldenburg
detailed how and why such places have always been at the center of
public life, and showed that bars, coffee shops, and general stores (as
well as, according to one of his lists, lounges, taverns, saloons,
doughnut shops, pool halls, bingo halls, lodges, and youth recreation
centers) are central to local democracy and community vitality. By
exploring in this and other books how third places work and the various
roles they serve, Oldenburg offered inspiration and insights that are
useful to individuals and communities everywhere.
Biography
With a degree in English and Social Studies from Minnesota's Mankato State University, and a Masters and PhD in Sociology from the University of Minnesota, Ray Oldenburg became a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of West Florida in Pensacola. Although he was a sociologist, he operated more like an anthropologist, out in the field amongst the native population. He had no fear of leaving the ivory tower. He loved Main Street.
Oldenburg was consulted by entrepreneurs, community and urban planners, churches, and others seeking to enhance social experiences and human connections. He also worked with cities including San Jose, Stockholm, and Osaka, spoke to planners, business groups, and on college campuses, and went on to edit a collection of stories called Celebrating the Great Good Place.
When he retired, the university created a “Third Place” community room in the library. In later years, he hosted friends in his own “third place,” a converted garage saloon. His latest and last book was The Joy of Tippling.
Perspectives
Third Places. Oldenburg defined third place as “a generic designation for a great variety of public places that host the regular, voluntary, informal, and happily anticipated gatherings of individuals beyond the realms of home and work.” In contrast to first places (home) and second places (work), a third place allows an individual to put aside their worries and concerns and simply enjoy the company and conversation around them.
He identified key characteristics of all third places. They are on neutral ground and promote social equity by leveling the status of guests. Conversation is the main activity and the mood is playful. Strangers are welcome, and there are regulars who feel a piece of themselves is rooted in the space. They enjoy the same feelings of warmth, possession, and belonging as they would in their own homes.
Third places
provide a setting for grassroots politics, create habits of public
association, and improve well-being. Oldenburg wrote, “Third places have
been parent to other forms of community affiliation and association
that eventually coexist with them. Free assembly does not begin, as so
many writers on the subject seem to assume, with formally organized
associations. It does not begin in fraternal orders, reading circles,
parent-teacher associations, or town halls. Those bodies are drawn from a
prior habit of association nurtured in third places. There must be
places in which people can find and sort one another out across the
barriers of social difference. There must be places akin to the colonial
tavern visited by Alexander Hamilton, which offered, as he recorded, ‘a
genuine social solvent with a very mixed company of different nations
and religions.’”
Two recordings with Ray Oldenburg, one of them drawing from interviews during the COVID-19 pandemic, are available at greatgoodplace.org.
Quotable
"In the absence of informal public life, living becomes more expensive. Where the means and facilities for relaxation and leisure are not publicly shared, they become the objects of private ownership and consumption."
"What suburbia cries for are the means for people to gather easily, inexpensively, regularly, and pleasurably -- a 'place on the corner,' real life alternatives to television, easy escapes from the cabin fever of marriage and family life that do not necessitate getting into an automobile."
"Most needed are those 'third places' which lend a public balance to the increased privatization of home life. Third places are nothing more than informal public gathering places. The phrase 'third places' derives from considering our homes to be the 'first' places in our lives, and our work places the 'second.'"
"The character of a third place is determined most of all by its regular clientele and is marked by a playful mood, which contrasts with people's more serious involvement in other spheres. Though a radically different kind of setting for a home, the third place is remarkably similar to a good home in the psychological comfort and support that it extends...They are the heart of a community's social vitality, the grassroots of democracy, but sadly, they constitute a diminishing aspect of the American social landscape."
"Life without community has produced, for many, a life style consisting mainly of a home-to-work-and-back-again shuttle. Social well-being and psychological health depend upon community. It is no coincidence that the 'helping professions' became a major industry in the United States as suburban planning helped destroy local public life and the community support it once lent."
"Totally unlike Main Street, the shopping mall is populated by strangers. As people circulate about in the constant, monotonous flow of mall pedestrian traffic, their eyes do not cast about for familiar faces, for the chance of seeing one is small. That is not part of what one expects there. The reason is simple. The mall is centrally located to serve the multitudes from a number of outlying developments within its region. There is little acquaintance between these developments and not much more within them. Most of them lack focal points or core settings and, as a result, people are not widely known to one another, even in their own neighborhoods, and their neighborhood is only a minority portion of the mall's clientele."
Accolades
"Eloquent and visionary, [The Great Good Place] is a compelling argument for these settings of informal public life as essential for the health both of our communities and ourselves. And its message is being heard: Today, entrepreneurs from Seattle to Florida are heeding the call of The Great Good Place - opening coffee houses, bookstores, community centers, bars and other establishments and proudly acknowledging their indebtedness to this book." - PlannersWeb.com
"The Great Good Place has put into words and focus what I've been doing all my life, from the barbershop I remember as a child to the bookstore I now own... Ray Oldenburg has defined those good places while still recognizing the magical chemistry they require." - Victor W. Herman, owner of Horizon Books
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Note: The original version of this article was published on December 31, 2008. This version has been updated by Karen Christensen, whose work with Oldenburg includes an article about third places in the UNESCO Courier magazine. Oldenburg left her with the task of writing a sequel to The Great Good Place, drawing on their discussions and on her new research.
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