Milk
Just the other day, I was bitching to a friend about the dearth of good movies these days. Movies that are about something other than mindless explosions – okay, so a good explosion or two can be quite satisfying, depending on your mood, but you know what I mean. Movies where the script, the acting,…
A Beginner’s Guide to RA: Back to School
More fodder for the reference area on HealthCentral: “When your RA starts to affect your ability to do your job, it can be terrifying, persuading you that your ability to lead a “normal” life is close to over. It doesn’t have to be. Retraining and education can help you find a new career, a new…
Geeking Out with New Words
I’ve had the kind of week that usually only happens during Mercury retrograde – not that I would necessarily admit to a strong belief in astrology, but when a pattern happens often enough, the accumulated evidence will eventually impact my position and shift it a little, because if it didn’t, I would have to abandon…
Weighty Thoughts
I’ve just returned a pair of size 8 pants because I couldn’t pull them up past my hips. This is a very new experience to me. In the past, I’ve hovered around size 4 or 6 (with temporary excursions into size 8 the two times I quit smoking) and aside from the myriad variations of…
Mistaken Identity
It’s Friday afternoon and I’m on my way home from running errands, basking in the sunshine that can feel warm if you’re out of the wind. Spring is coming, but I can still see my breath. I turn the corner onto my street and notice two police cars. Idly, I wonder what’s happening – there’s…
Predictably Unpredictable
My new HealthCentral post is up: “The other day, someone asked me why I couldn’t seem to learn to work within my limits, despite knowing that doing too much inevitably leads to needing to sit still for several days healing. For once I didn’t joke, but honestly told them it was because of the dread.”…
Calling In Miscommunicated
The snooze alarm had been going off for half an hour before it finally penetrated my brain enough to make me wonder what time it was. I peered blearily at the alarm clock with one eye, an act which suddenly made both eyes open wide so fast I may have sprained an eyelid. It was…
You Know Spring is Coming When…
Your neighbour gets the first bulb and flower catalogue of the year. Shoestores are putting flip-flops in the window. Each day features a sneezing fit of at least 10 sneezes in a row. The windows are not frozen for a whole week. Denmark and Victoria report snowdrops and crocuses. Daytime Savings starts (although I still…
