Friday, June 13, 2008
Real World
With my health issues behind me, it's time I turn my attention to the real world. Right now, both of my sons should be deep into studies. My 10th grader has finals, and besides having a normal-for-his-age attachment to i-chatter and video games, he's a pretty self-determined guy. My 17 year old,...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Dismembered bodies stuffed in floating cans
Now that I got your attention... This is what I get for going out on the water in an urban, industrial, formerly crime-ridden town with two marine cops! An earful of gross stories. As part of a boating destination assignment for Northeast Boating Magazine, I had to get out onto Bridgeport, CT...
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Monday, June 9, 2008
Smelling the Roses
It’s 100 outside, a comfy 76 inside. I’m sitting on my favorite couch, laptop appropriately on my lap, staring though sliding glass doors at a damp blue sky, branches on dozens of trees swaying violently; a storm threatening. This is actually the first day in many months I have no immediate writing...
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Saturday, June 7, 2008
Needles, Cupping and Chinese Medicine
My back looks like it’s been attacked by a giant squid. Eight large round suction bruises are all that is left of last night’s “cupping” treatment – an adjunct therapy with acupuncture as its basis. In the past month, Western medicine has both helped and hurt me. I’ve been having abdominal pain –...
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Thursday, June 5, 2008
ADDad; For Fathers Day
Standing still is not for Jeff. ADDad, Wildman, His friends joke. He starts to talk when up at 5 Dark outside, time to move Makes my coffee; roused from sleep. The walls vibrate with his energy Aerobic time, his heart beats deep. Drops of sweat like canine shake. “Let’s scoot,” he says. Our word for...
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Beauty
I let all my toxic and tiresome friends go years ago. I have just so many days in the year - so many Saturday nights to go out, to entertain. Why should I waste them in the company of yawners? But Teresa surprised me. Just as I was about to dismiss her as needy and self-absorbed, this beauty won me...
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Monday, June 2, 2008
Sticker Politics
I just saw a great bumper sticker today; 1/20/09 The End of an Error
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
My Oldest Son
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RgS0rcfFVag I am blessed with two very humorous sons. My oldest, Ben goes to boarding school and last summer, he took a film course in NYC; not to be a big movie mogul but to "make better videos of my kids then you do with us." This clip is one of 14 he has posted on...
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In My World
These days, in my world, a possible diagnosis of a hernia is cause for celebration. Friends who had no idea of my prior fears were completely baffled as to why I was clapping and carrying on with the news that, yes, I might need surgery, but it's not the surgery I had envisioned. I remember a...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Doctors Visits
I haven't been feeling great for a few days - and thanks to the internet, I now know I need major surgery, chemo, radiation and perhaps a torso-ectomy. Of course, this is without any kind of real medical diagnoses whatsoever. But, I get into Google and input; "pelvic pain, right groin into leg,...
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