My old friend Mark in Chicago has a shirt on teefury.com of an octo. It’s available today only, for the cost of $9 per shirt. It’s a steal! Even the shipping is cheap. Seriously. I’m a huge fan of octos, especially after diving with the Giant Pacific Octopus in Puget Sound. They’re graceful, and wicked [...]
Perhaps it’s a vanity that comes with being 30-something. I’ve noticed some scarring (hyper-pigmentation) on my chin and neck from years of cystic acne. It only flares up once every few months, and when it does, it’s painful. What I went to see the dermatologist about, a week ago, was to get a cream to [...]
From a recent article in the New York Times, Mind Over Meds: A psychiatric interview has a certain rhythm to it. You start by listening to what your patient says for a few minutes, without interrupting, all the while sorting through possible diagnoses. This vast landscape of distress has been mapped into a series of [...]
A few weeks ago I was looking for another 5K to join, maybe at the end of April. I was surprised to see one of the “eco-friendly” events was connected to Dow Chemical. Seriously? Run for Water. Clean water is VERY important – and I can get behind the cause of clean water to those [...]
I saw this in The Stranger’s Slog this morning that kingsolver.com currently has a rather rude message for those looking for Barbara Kingsolver’s website. It turns out that the man who is being forced to give up the domain www.kingsolver.com is a man in China, and lost the doman to Barbara Kingsolver in arbitration. The [...]