When I moved to small-town Charlottesville from the big city, I expected everyone to be driving like Miss Daisy’s chauffeur: slowly, waving hello, making frequent stops. For months, I wondered where Morgan Freeman was.
One driver lived up to my expectations in his own special way. He stopped his pickup truck at every other block […]

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 13th, 2005 at 12:48 pm and is filed under Psych, Abuse. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

I’m gullible. I tend to believe people are honest, but as a result I tend to fall for stupid things. For example, I once believed a person who said “gullible” isn’t in the dictionary.
I saw a wall mount of a rabbit with six-point antlers and was told it was a “Jack-a-lope.” I wondered about that […]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 5th, 2005 at 3:06 pm and is filed under Patient Behavior, Pain, Women's Issues, Men's Issues. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

In Asia, red meat is as rare as pink diamonds in America (though I’m sure J Lo might have a trove).
When my cousins immigrated from South Korea in 1975, I remember how much red meat they ate. They ate so much steak and Korean beef BBQ that I thought they were going to put on […]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 5th, 2005 at 2:17 pm and is filed under Health & Wellness, Cardiovascular. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.