Prosaic Paradise

Thank you, Breakfast Club – not the movie. The 80s band. Does anyone else remember that song or is it just me? I was telling my friends Christie and Megan at lunch today that it’s been a while since I got that queue-full feeling in my head. Like if I have one more detail to […]

You know I am desperate for friendly weather when I: go out on my front porch with a chair stay out there for an hour in 45 degree weather with the neighbor kids constantly getting almost run over or sworn at See, my front porch is pretty much arm’s length from the actual road. If […]

Well, it seems that events have conspired to thwart my November daily posting goals. Friday, during my first day back at work after bronchitis, I started to have sharp abdominal pains. I knew what it was right away, because it’s just not something you forget easily. And I saw it all playing out just like […]

Well, it’s been a really challenging day here in sicksville in front of the TV. Not only have I been laid low, now Jack is percolating with ick on the couch. We both have prescriptions from our respective docs and Christie, saint that she is, dropped off potato soup and a giant stack of DVDs. […]

This is what my body ended up saying to me yesterday. I tried to go for a walk in the fresh air, which was lovely. I tried to keep moving a bit, put some laundry away, so my muscles would not completely lose any strength they ever had. I was doing great, albeit coughing. Then […]

I just pushed my way through this interesting article from the New Yorker on health care economics, and I while there are some nitpicks I have with it, it’s nice to see something at least a little nuanced on the subject. (Nitpick example, use of the word “rationing”; to see why, read Buckeye Surgeon’s post […]

So I was really psyched at the advent of “Vitamin Water 10”, the low calorie version of one of my favorite drinks. I’ve read science back and forth on the health value of the original, and people are always decrying the sugar. Well no more! So thus I found myself delighted to see several flavor […]

Last week I signed up with a gym again for the first time in a decade. Last time went really poorly and they got lots of my money and I never went. This time I have a buddy and a better grasp of time management and money management and far less invested in what other […]

I had big plans for this past weekend. We’d have Christmas, I’d get a new tattoo, I’d see my friend Becki who hasn’t been on this coast in a decade. Then I’d settle in and enjoy my homey home. Big plans. But when I woke up on Friday viral menaces had decided a whole different […]

It’s not all that often that I find out that Federal law has actually touched my life in a concrete way. Last week I was feeling downtrodden when I was looking at my new insurance information (our company moved to a different parent blah blah) because it looked like I would be losing my mental […]