Why on earth does it feel like some days you are cruising along and then WHAM, you are knocked back down again? Why does it feel like you got hit by a freight train and all you did was plan your child’s birthday party? I have a very wise doctor […]
Monthly Archives: October 2014
If you are a Superman Comic fan then you would well be familiar with a place called Bizarro World where the opposite of things can happen. A place where bad things are good and good things are bad. If you are not a comic officianado, then maybe a few decades […]
Bizarro World
We were exposed to mold at a out of town trip a few years ago. It wreaked havoc on 3 out of 4 of us. It took thousands of dollars and months of treatment to get back to “normal”. What it also did was to spur us to investigate our […]
What’s Mold Got to Do with It? (The VCS contrast ...
The fear mongering has reached a new epidemic with this “Ebola crisis”. I just don’t get the media and how they triage information. They don’t pick the epdemic that is killing more people each year, in fact they don’t even report on it with fluency or facts. They are looking […]
Why I’m not Afraid of Ebola
I know I’ve talked before about the courage of a lioness and I’ve probably mentioned Rose, but have I told you the kind of courage her spirit possesses? I spent endless hours with Rose when I was sick. She is a widow and retired (although her social schedule is busier […]
Take Courage from a “Rose”
As I was casually watching TV the other day and also reading, working and checking my Iphone, I heard the strangest thing in the background on a commercial that caught my ear. It was a pharmaceutical commercial for some drug and it was saying the side affects, which is always […]
Idio-pathy – n. A foolish study or a study by ...
We have all heard of the 80/20 rule in the workplace where 20% of the staff does 80% of the work. I have some not so fond memories of the 80/20 rule in action in school projects where I always ended up in the 20% doing 80% of the work. […]
The 80/20 Rule – Parenting a Lyme
Honestly, it was the last thing I had ever considered – that my body temperature was too low. I only reached for a thermometer when I thought one of the kids were hot, not cold. Once my doctor asked me to track my morning temp 7 days in a row, […]