Blogs, Communities and Meeting Friends
I’m reading Roadside Crosses, another Jeffery Deaver book, this one a spin-off of sorts from the Lincoln Rhyme novels. Our main character is Kathryn Dance, a kinesics expert who works for the California Bureau of Investigation and really, exactly what the book is about is irrelevant (except to say that when every time an emotion…
A Rant Revisited
I subscribe to a number of HealthCentral writers and a couple of days ago, got the latest notification that Karen Lee Richards (who writes about fibromyalgia and chronic pain) had written another post. It turns out that it was an alert mentioning that Dr. Oz has a segment about fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome on…
Spoons Are Not Just for Soup Anymore
My latest HC post is up: “There I was at the computer, staring at my monitor, seeing a vast expanse of white space that needed to be filled with this post. This post about spoons. I stared at it on and off for six hours and nothing came to me — well, nothing other than…
The Ice Age Cometh
Bitter. Resentful. I just want to cry. These are words and phrases used in conversations with friends, acquaintances and total strangers when talking about Toronto’s weather in the past couple weeks. Because it’s cold. Really, really cold. 470 degrees (at least) below average for this time of year. But why would October be any different?…
Happy-Go-Lucky
I remember watching the Oscars last year and being really confused about the nomination for best actress for a movie called Happy-Go-Lucky that I’d never even heard of. Put it on my mental to-rent list, but very low down as the clip they showed during the Academy Awards looked kind of… well. Stupid? But when…
Thanks Giving
It has ripples, this thing. This exhibit. This fulfilling of a dream I thought was just a dream, something to wish for, think about, but never realize. A dream, a fancy, not an achievable goal. And besides the mindboggle of holycrapIhaveanexhibit!, there’s something more, a deeper awe. Because as Dawn said when I told her…
Fall Bokeh & Winners
Inspired by Ree’s (Pioneer Woman) latest call for… well, Fall bokeh. Winners were selected by asking David – it seemed appropriate – to choose a number between 1 and 53 and then another one. Random enough, since I asked it late in the evening and he was blessedly oblivious of my evil plan. First number…
Great Expectations
Not surprisingly, I’ve been thinking of dreams and how to make them a reality and I wrote some of those thoughts down for this week’s HealthCentral post: “Be kind to yourself, we say. Work within your limits, we say. Accommodate your illness. Don’t push yourself too hard. Sometimes, it sounds as if now that you…
Bonfire Planned, Bring Your Own Kindling
And she’s off on a rant again…. In Monday evening when I was vaguely skimming the paper, seeing what had happened during my four-day absence from anything not exhibit-related (I still giggle when placing em and an exhibit in the same sentence – bear with me for a bit longer, okay?), I came upon this…