Some long-time readers of this blog will remember our son’s life-and-death struggle against MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) three years ago. A few others will know I also fought a similar infection last summer, and that Michael wrestled with a skin-level infection last fall. Though our son’s infection was much more serious and was treated through […]

Taken from a forum post and republished here:
So, I’ve been mulling this thing for over a week now, wondering how to go about expressing my gratitude to the man I married almost 13 years ago. I decided to do it here because: A) It’s my forum and I can and B) Most of the people […]

Of what use is it, I wonder, to speak of [tag]mindfulness[/tag] to a generation that grew up multitasking? Can the quiet, subtle peace of complete surrender to the one task at hand possibly compete in allure with the bright, glittering, ubiquitous sideshows that divide attention, again and again, into minutiae?
I don’t know. These are the […]

(On coincidence, modern medicine, modern media, and Michael Moore.)
I’ve been around long enough to know that there’s no such thing as coincindence.
I logged into Alternet.org today (they’re my homepage, though they’re not carrying Molly Ivins these days and I’m not happy about it) and was therefore completely unsurprised to find a well-known filmmaker is planning […]