CLL patients are all familiar with Watch and Wait. It is a maddening distraction for someone who wants to do something. It is not aggressive, nor even proactive, but reactive. This is despairing to anyone who wants to be assertive, take control, nip it in the bud, get it all behind them, move forward, take…
I had been seduced by righteous eating. Steven Bratman, MD It was purely by accident that I stumbled across Steven Bratman, a physician who practices alternative medicine. He has written books and done studies on what he describes as a mental condition known as ORTHOREXIA, or the perhaps unhealthy compulsion to eat healthy foods. Goodness…
I read an interesting editorial in THE NATIONAL REVIEW which said a lot about what I think of Phil Robertson and the reality show, Duck Dynasty. It chided those who want to defend Phil and his controversial remarks. Here is a link to the editorial: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/416048/stop-defending-phil-robertson-youre-embarrassing-yourself-katherine-timpf Phil Robertson is Phil Robertson. I was a conservative,…
Yep. That’s me. I am immuno-compromised. But what does that mean? That means, so far, I have been extremely fortunate, though I have the misfortune of not ever being able to eat my favorite oysters on the half-shell. It is my part of the compromise of immuno-compromisation. I don’t eat the oysters, and they don’t…
I borrowed the title from Buzz Lightyear. Thanks, Buzz. I’ve had my eye on infinity for a while, now. I think I might be gaining on it. We’re all actually gaining on it whether we know it or not, really. It’s a morbid thought, or it’s an expansive one, depending on what my frame of…
Until just this week, I had an employee, a Mr. Surly, a foreman who was extremely talented and good at what he did. The quality of his work was impeccable. This talent and capability covered a multitude of other shortcomings, which chiefly consisted of a growing and ultimately complete inability to get along with anyone…
I will complain a bit about the cold weather, if you don’t mind. I will complain a bit if you do. I want to complain about it and will not be deterred. If you are satisfied with the weather, then turn the page, or rather, in modern parlance, hit the back button. If you are…
I have been reading about Middle-Eastern troubles. There is much I wanted to say about them, but I came to the conclusion that people have been contemplating Middle-Eastern troubles for thousands of years and while my analysis may hint at some relevance to the situation there, I perhaps think more highly of myself than I…
What a question! Yet, that seems to be a question that is being asked of many. It is the moment’s meme. Why would science need my belief? It begs the question. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who, by the way, did not finish college, much to the apparent concern of former DNC Chairman Howard Dean and…
I cannot seem to get anything written, not because of the lack of desire to write, or an absence or words, but because there’s simply nothing that needs to be said. After forcing myself to fore-go politics, though I am passionate about politics, I have lost my desire to write about it. I would prefer…
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