Math has always been a favorite subject of mine. Go figure, I’m Asian! However, in my teeny-tiny hometown in Ohio, we were lucky if we had an abacus or a protractor. Okay, it wasn’t that bad, but when I asked my math teachers to teach us pre-calculus, their response was, “You aren’t Isaac Newton. When [...]

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 24th, 2011 at 10:30 am and is filed under Insurance, Medicines, author's viewpoint. 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.

Reality checks are important for all of us–some more than others. Joan Rivers gives Hollywood fashionistas a run for their money, such as her criticisms of Cate Blanchett’s Givenchy dress at the Oscars. Some critics said it was “high fashion,” but Joan gave these dreamers a reality check. She said the dress looked like it [...]

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 24th, 2011 at 10:14 am and is filed under Psych. 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.

Change is inevitable. We’re born, we mature, we grow old, we die. Well, some of us mature differently– like Hugh Hefner, who walks around in his pajamas at the age of 160. (Don’t most of us have nightmares of walking in public in our jammies?)
Personally, I fear change. I fear what will happen when a [...]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 13th, 2011 at 9:49 am and is filed under Health & Wellness, Smoking, Weight, author's viewpoint. 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.

Meryl Streep starred in Silkwood in 1983. Karen Silkwood was purposefully contaminated with radiation in a plutonium processing plant. This was not a Homer Simpson moment — eating a donut at a nuclear power plant. I was scared to death when Streep lit up the radiation exposure detector at work.
What does radiation [...]

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 3rd, 2011 at 12:36 pm and is filed under Disasters, Emergencies, Toxins. 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.

Can you stomach it? I’ve learned, with my middle-aged wisdom, to learn to be more tolerant of things that don’t quite settle well in my stomach, such as news stations named after animals, bumper stickers that say “Bite Me,” and Charlie Sheen.
Asian people in general have strong stomachs, which is why we can eat spicy [...]

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 3rd, 2011 at 12:18 pm and is filed under Cancer, Digestive System. 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.