It did not bode well for me this morning when I looked in the mirror at the ladies room at work and noticed the prominent red pimple on the very tip of my nose. Which was further reddened by the new day's batch of airborne pollen-driven sneezing and nose blowing. I could be a traffic beacon! To my chagrin I also realized that my gray t-shirt was ( Read more... )

( Recalculating )

( Dawn Break )

This weekend has been a busy prelude to what I suspect will turn into a busy (if not productive) spring break ( Read more... )

The news seriously sucks. (And M. wonders why I would rather take a nap...) I haven't really written about global current events lately, but there comes a point when global becomes local.

* Israel/Lebanon Conflict: It sucks. It's tragic. People are dying. Little kids are dying. Sea Turtles are dying. But at the same time, I can't help feeling ( Read more... )

First of all, thank you so much for all your comments and messages and emails and phone calls. Your support and good wishes mean a lot to me.

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My Bubbe passed away last night after suffering a brain hemorrhage earlier in the day. I drove into KC from Llamaville to keep my dad company at his bedside vigil, as we listened to my Bubbe's body continue "chain-stokes" breathing, breathing on a kind of autopilot. As physicians, my parents know too much at a time when they really don't want to ( Read more... )

When I came home on Sunday, M. made me brownies to cheer me up. Last night, he decided we were both too chubby, and took me on a 5-mile "hike" around our neighborhood. (That really did cheer me up.) When I referred to our adventure as a "hike," M. laughed. "I don't think we can call it that. The closest we got to nature were some of those scrubby ( Read more... )

( Homecomings and goings )

I spent most of Saturday sleeping, as is my religious tradition. Congregation Sha'arei Sheina, as Ms. IMG calls it (trans: The gates of sleep). I finished HP & HBP and Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb. I made surreptitious phone calls on my cell, lest I break the Sabbath too obviously in front of my god-fearing relatives ( Read more... )