Category: Life

Voices of Crohns Disease – Well – Tara Parker-Pope – Health – New York Times Blog: “Today, “Patient Voices,’’ created by my colleague Karen Barrow, gives a voice to Crohn’s disease, featuring the stories of seven men and women who talk about living with the disorder.” Nice write-up today on Crohn’s on the New York [...]

“Daddy?” “Yes, son?” “What does regret mean?” “Well, son, a funny thing about regret is: that it’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done. And, by the way, if you see your mom this weekend, would you be sure and tell her SATAN SATAN SATAN SATAN.” – Orbital, [...]

After my calculus final last Thursday (rather catastrophic/wounding), I am finally re-capturing my own life. Who would have thought that a simple, basic college course could have stolen so much of my vitality away, for the majority of the summer? As I move out from under its dank cloud, I find that the things I [...]

Cake Wrecks: Just go read it. Funny. (for example)

I use the WP-stats plugin and Google Analytics. Here are a sampling of some of the search strings people are using in search engines, who ultimately end up on my site. My favorites are bolded. Some search terms that are obvious/dull or expose specifics about people other than myself have been removed. What have I [...]

I knew I’d been not quite myself, and that I’d been fighting off some low-grade blahs over the past few weeks. Our anniversary trip to Walla Walla wasn’t as wonderful as it could have been, for example, because I was tired and crampy and uninterested in wine tasting for the most part–a travesty*. But over [...]

My Twitter friend @peat almost always starts the morning by tweeting: “How are you changing the world today?” I don’t usually have a good answer. I thought about why this was and reflected on my path. My path is not as a world-changer, at least not consistently and directly. Mine is not fully defined yet, [...]

One dark and dank night in Birmingham, U.K. I was walking alone on the campus of the University, near the canal on the western edge. It had been raining for a million weeks and the whole country was flooded. My shoes were wet and the low-pressure sulphur streetlights made every color look like dark blood. [...]

What’s the sexiest area of study in your esteem? For me, these are at or near the top: Geology Niche history, like medieval European or Icelandic or pre-Spanish Mesoamerica, local history Art History Literature Anything that allows you to do ground-breaking and obscure academic research that might lead to the cure for cancer.

On my way to the doctor this morning up Washington Street, watching pedestrians in sarongs and suits standing on either side of me passing. The sun suddenly looked different. Like the opposite of a blink, more light than ever. Not right for ten in the morning in July. Not the same, like hard white gold [...]