A few good words for moms

Our little note in appreciation of moms, in observance of Mothers Day, begins with an eye-popping statistic. It comes from the Harvard Grant Study, a groundbreaking project started in 1938 that has tracked the lives of male Harvard grads for an astonishing 75 years. Men who reported having “warm” childhood relationships with their mothers, the(…)

Clean up your room day

You probably don’t know this, but May 10 is national “Clean Up Your Room” Day. You may also not know that a messy room—or office, workshop, or entire house—is an actual cause of stress. Maybe you’ve had that feeling intuitively, but it’s more than that: It’s fact. Last year a team of anthropologists and archaeologists(…)

National Nurses Week

At Bucky we frequently talk about “the power of comfort.” With National Nurses Week approaching (May 6-12), we’d like to go a little deeper into that word while honoring some people who richly deserve our respect. And appreciation. For someone suffering from an illness, comfort isn’t an incidental matter. It’s certainly not trivial. The word(…)

Light can interfere with sleep.

Here in Seattle where Bucky resides, we’re especially conscious of the lengthening hours of daylight this time of year. Our rather northern latitude is pretty dark in the winter, frankly. On December 21, the winter solstice, the sun theoretically rises at 7:55 a.m. and sets at 4:21 p.m. We say “theoretically” because no one in(…)