For years, my mother’s been calling to guilt me out about and not visiting her and her (deceased) parents. Because it’d gone on so long, I’d sort of gotten used to it. When my stepfather died this summer, though, she took her ‘game’ to the next level and had me so tightly wound that I […]
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Japa-geddon
‘So,’ my daughter asked, ‘how’s that Jappageddon thing going…?’ ‘Japa-what?!’ I sputtered, even as I realized that, without cable, she wouldn’t know specifics like the name of the nuclear plant involved, but must have listenned to what I’d said about the meltdown in Japan and my concern for what it’s doing to the Earth. ‘Good […]
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Years ago, while searching for alternatives to standard pharmaceutical treatments of arthritis, I read about ‘SAMe’ (S-Adenosyl-l-methionine). In Europe, SAMe is a prescription medication that’s been studied and used to treat depression and arthritis for decades. In Canada, however, it is considered a ‘health supplement’, which means it’s of little or no interest to most […]
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