Thursday, January 1, 2004GIVING BLOODseemed like a good way to start the New Year right. RG and I felt we wanted to do something a little more meaningful than sitting around getting plastered, or taking part in Boston's First Night celebration (fun as it is). We had gotten a post card a few days ago announcing that the Red Cross was... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 11:30 AM Comments (6) (link) Tuesday, December 30, 2003THE ANCESTRY OF ANOREXIAHaving waged a battle with this scourge in my youth, knowing how powerful the forces are that drive usually young and usually women sometimes to their death, I was drawn by this headline in the health and science section of today's Boston Globe. When I was 13 I was 5'4" inches tall and weighed about... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 5:14 PM Comments (8) (link) Sunday, December 28, 2003WHEN ACCIDENTS HAPPENA sprained ankle has put a damper on my usual perpetual motion. Like all accidents of this nature, small accidents, you wish you could just roll back the clock to those few seconds before you lost your focus and fell down the step and your ankle twisted beneath you. Luckily RG was with me and helped... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 1:04 PM Comments (10) (link) Friday, December 26, 2003TWO GIFTSGift means "poison" in German. On this day after Christmas we have two "gifts" we can thank the Bush administration for giving to the American people. Both "gifts" are the direct results of the Bushies infatuation with deregulation and their blindness to any scientific evidence of the dangerous... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 5:40 AM Comments (5) (link) Tuesday, December 23, 2003HOW YA DOIN'?An innocuous enough greeting. I say it all the time without thinking. I say it to the bus driver, the UPS delivery guy and the checkout person at Shaw's. People generally nod, smile half assed, and mumble something like "fine, fine, doin' fine". A few days ago I was out walking the dog. It was early... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 2:59 PM Comments (7) (link) |
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