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Category Archives: Blog
Notes from the Third Circle
Greetings from the Third Circle of Hell, formerly known as Gluttony. Now simply called The Kitchen. If time spent in the garden is gold, time spent in the kitchen is that nasty base metal (that turns your skin sickly green) … Continue reading
Life Skills – Teenager Edition
My young teenager has big plans this summer. He doesn’t know about them yet. An underground network of mothers (including his) is currently conspiring to create an exhaustive list of LIFE SKILLS to be reinforced or learned this summer. Here … Continue reading
Enough Already!
Dear Weather: Remember way back in January when I was super sad about the lack of snow? I rhapsodized about how winter and cold and January are fine as long as we can have some decent snow. I fell prey … Continue reading
Yo, Normal Risk Fifty-year-olds
HI. Are you a normal risk 50 or soon-to-be? Did your doctor say to you last year, “Yeah, you might want to think about scheduling that screening colonoscopy.”? The American Cancer Society upped the anal ante last year and decided … Continue reading
Don’t Let Marie Kondo Bury Us Alive
I volunteer at Old School by Steeple People, a non-profit thrift store at 1901 Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis. Ever since Tidying Up with Marie Kondo aired on Netflix, we’ve been swamped with donations. Mostly clothing. We’re anticipating a surge in … Continue reading
If Sh!# Were Red…
A lovely story about McDonald’s and fecal material circulated on my Facebook feed a week ago. Apparently, a researcher with London Metropolitan University swabbed the ordering touchscreens of eight McDonald’s in London and Birmingham. The research team grew a whole … Continue reading
The Beauty of Unavailability or A Love Letter to My Flip Phone
Ace, the Big E, and I travelled Up North for Thanksgiving. Between us, we schlepped along two flip phones with only one charger (oops), an iPad with charger, and my laptop. The boys ran around in the woods, unearthing deer … Continue reading
Llama Llama Raparama
In the spirit of the season, I’m going to share the love. With you. Anna Dewdney was an American author/illustrator. She wrote the first Llama Llama book (Llama Llama Red Pajama) in 2005. Her Llama books address a wide range … Continue reading
Open Enrollment
Every year. Rigamarole. Changes to all the plans. Yes, of course I’m grateful to have insurance at all. Yes, I am. This year, I dutifully filled out the online “Alex” assistant thing that’s supposed to estimate costs and decide upon … Continue reading
Who’s the Fairest?
I belong to a closed Facebook group of women physicians. It’s a supportive lot, discussing family issues, doc/patient situations, empty-nesting, aging parents, teen angst etc. Today, I got sucked into a thread all about anti-aging skin care. I’m inclined to … Continue reading
