This Bible and Signs of Generational AnxietyOld bible. Post cards, newspaper clippings and copied (or written?) poems circa early 1920s. And this random piece of paper with the recounting of a bad dream. I dreamed last night of drinking some poison, perhaps carbolic acid, something that looked like blood, in milk. It seems as though … Read more
A couple of weeks ago I got on the scale and for the first time weighed ten pounds more than the top weight I’d imagined not too long before (which at the time I’d considered seven pounds above my ideal weight) and realized it was time to get real with exercise. I spent a week … Read more
February, as you may recall, is my “make active choices” month. How’s it going? Meh… The parameters of the goal are pretty fuzzy, life has been in flux. I have not consistently been prioritizing that trip to the gym over other things. So I thought another form of active choice would be to throw a … Read more
“You thank God for the good things that come to you, but you don’t thank him for the things that seem to you bad; that is where you go wrong.” –Ramana Marharshi This quote has been in my mind lately, kind of flopping around in there like a fish along with this other flopping fish– … Read more
I’m going through a period in my life where I am hearing from several friends and acquaintances who are having issues with their health, and have questions about my journey with cancer and nutrition. I thought I might share my favorite books on the subject. Beating Cancer with Nutrition This book is jam-packed with information–and … Read more
At work on Monday afternoon, I spent six and a half hours single-handedly doing this: So that on Tuesday, they could do this: The new furniture is all match-y and stuff. When it’s not still covered in boxes, I’ll take a picture. I think it looks nice, but unfortunately an entire office of new laminate … Read more
From my recent posts, you might think it was social-y, with movies and such. And kind of, it was, but it was really much more about being sick. Just a cold I think–but just-a-colds for me tend to involve a long and fierce battle with bronchial congestion, and an utter exhaustion component, and this cold … Read more
I’ve been loosely, but with some horror, following the issue of genetically modified salmon. If you haven’t, the basic story is that a company has spliced some genes to make a “super-salmon” that grows twice as fast as its wild brethren. The FDA has said that the salmon meat is essentially the same, and is … Read more
Since I’m sick with a cold and classes are over, I don’t HAVE to go out. So I’m not going out. It takes a few days of being cooped up in the house before I actually want to start organizing. That time has come. So I am slowly going through the pile of papers on … Read more
Paul and I have discussed it, and come to the conclusion that with the fast-approaching birthday, we’re going to stop our fertility related activities…not ALL of them, but the extracurricular ones. The monthly blood tests and ultrasounds, weekly acupuncture appointments and ceramic pots of Chinese herb teas. To be honest, we’ve only been doing a … Read more