Soda is soda and a pop is a Popsicle in NYC, where I used to live. But when I moved to Kenton, Ohio at the tender age of 7, I ordered an orange pop but got an orange soda instead. The confused worker at the Dairy Freeze told me, “You ordered an orange pop, […]

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 26th, 2007 at 7:08 am and is filed under Food, Weight, Diabetes. 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.

“Friends come and go, Talking of Michelangelo” is my adaptation of T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. I never really got into poetry, so to challenge myself, at Denison University I enrolled not just in a poetry class, but in an honors poetry class.
Ho ho ho… hum. In […]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 18th, 2007 at 8:15 pm and is filed under Cancer, Women'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.

Tension can be a good thing. A tightrope walker needs a good tense rope. Tension in the theater can make the difference between a B movie and an A movie. The View became more popular with all the tension that occurred with Rosie O’Donnell. Personally, I’m wound so tightly that if I relax, I’ll […]

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 12th, 2007 at 6:25 am and is filed under Pain, Neurologic. 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.

Nicole Kidman is amazing in The Hours, the role that earned her an Academy Award. From the haunting music of Philip Glass to the fake nose on Kidman, Hours provides a powerful look into the day of a life. I find it ironic that in the movie Meryl Streep (the best actress ever–in […]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 at 8:47 am and is filed under Pulmonary, Infections. 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.