Tuesday, July 1, 2003EATING DISORDERS AND MORTALITY5% of patients with eating disorders die within five years of diagnosis. It is the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. An article about this appeared in today's Boston Globe. It said that Anorexia has increased steadily from 1950 to 1984 and leveled off and that Bulimia was first described... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 2:10 PM Comments (0) (link) Monday, June 30, 2003WHAT'S NEWSWORTHY?Four generations of women from one family die in a car crash and it is relegated to some small column in the back of the NYT. Jemmie wondered why it hadn't gotten more attention. Well, it only affected the women in one family. Also there were hints that the family was probably working class or less... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 7:16 AM Comments (1) (link) Sunday, June 29, 20034 GENERATIONS OF A FAMILY DIE IN A NEW JERSEY CRASHA headline in a small article on a back page in today's NYT. The dead were all women. A Great-grandmother, grand-mother, mother and her 7 year old daughter all on their way to a religious revival meeting. Evidently the brakes failed on their Honda Accord, they skidded into the eastbound lane of... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 11:24 AM Comments (3) (link) WRITING ABOUT WRITINGWriting can lead you to unexpected places. For the first time I have been trying to reconstruct my life as accurately and unflinchingly as possible in what I consider my primary blog, Six Generations of First Born Women. This is where I do my "serious" writing as opposed to this which is pretty off... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 7:55 AM Comments (0) (link) Saturday, June 28, 2003MANICURES AND PEDICURESDo you have a nail shop run by some Asian folks near you? In a three block stretch along Mass. Ave., near where I live in Cambridge, there are now three such nail "spas". There was one when we moved here about four years ago, and in the past year, two more opened. I know there is another one on a... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 7:50 AM Comments (2) (link) |
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