Tech bloggers and Facebook fanatics tell me that the Christmas letter is, like, “so over.”  A quaint, antiquated, useless custom.  Or worse yet, déclassé.  They use phrases like/… Read full post »

Open Salon is like a drug to me – both the reading and the writing.  It pulls me in; it opens my mind; it points at my heart and says, “Ha!  You thought you were alone?”

I joined because I wanted a place to put those wild ideas that come… Read full post »

         I wish I’d been nicer to Anne’s sister Sally.  I wince every time I think of it and I could kick myself for my lack of charity.  I am a nurse, after all.  But an idiot.  A cruel, tho/… Read full post »

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            This is not about our current recession, but about a “recession year” that I spent in Seattle with my girls.  The lesson has held me through all sorts of bo/… Read full post »

After reading Ms Snitten’s hilarious classified ad to sell her mother-in-law, and then Man Talk Now’s list of questions for the aspiring victims of crazy girls, I started thinking about being a mother-in-law, and being a mother in general.

When my daughters were born, I felt this… Read full post »

Did you see Karen Kaplan's article in the Los Angeles Times today about a new source of stem cells?  Readily available, no embyos needed and they grow into nerve, muscle and other types of tissue cells with great alacrity.

Okay, there's  one teeny tiny catch -- you get them from male… Read full post »