Posted in ...and everything else, Bioethics, Pop Culture on May 15th, 2013 No Comments »
As reactions continue to race around the internet about Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery – the actual discussions, not the Monday-morning quarterbacking of her decision or the utterly vile “but what about her boobies” reaction from that particular subgroup of men who manage to amaze me by their continued ability to manage basic [...]
Posted in ...and everything else on April 6th, 2013 1 Comment »
I really like this post on body policing, and in particular, how people seem to feel qualified to tell someone with a chronic illness that if they just did X – largely either adopt some quack routine or exercise – that all their problems would go away. In particular, I really liked this: You’d never [...]
Posted in ...and everything else, Duct Tape and Prayers, life and living on January 2nd, 2013 No Comments »
A version of this post should have been up before Christmas, but technology decided to take a holiday a bit before the rest of us. …and then there was the time the WordPress wasn’t actually publishing posts, and things got behind, and then it all just seemed like such a big mountain to crawl out [...]
Posted in ...and everything else, Duct Tape and Prayers, life and living on December 17th, 2012 4 Comments »
Oh, I was doing so well until I wasn’t. But at least when I wasn’t, I was really committed to it. I’m not sure what threw the anxiety into overdrive today, but by about 10am I was a quivering mess. And once again, it wasn’t so much the potential diagnosis as it was not knowing [...]
Posted in ...and everything else, blog as therapy, Duct Tape and Prayers, life and living on December 16th, 2012 1 Comment »
I expected to fly into approximately a million little pieces, give or take, by about 3pm Friday afternoon. In fact, I was so convinced that this was going to happen I began pulling things together to go home, because I am constitutionally incapable of falling apart at work, and I figured the strain of that [...]