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Category Archives: REALITY
REALITY?: OR Games
Technology turns the human heartbeat into rhythmic beeps that pierce the sterile white room. I lay there swathed in white and blue, protected from the light and glint of steel, feeling the insides of my head pulled and prodded, cut. … Continue reading
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REALITY?: Update and General Health Infodump
After the complete control of the headache by prednisone and the last bloodtests revealing elevated ‘sed rates’ and CRP highly indicative of inflammation of the arteries, I am pretty confident that the diagnosis of Giant Cell Arteritis is accurate. But … Continue reading
REALITY?: War technology gone too far?
Can’t get tonight’s CBS 60 Minutes report shaken free, settled, comprehended. It was on the new military air force unmanned planes that are currently being used over Iraq and Afghanistan. The planes carry missiles, and more importantly, cameras that see … Continue reading
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POETRY & REALITY?: Poets are Creative, not Stupid.
And so I would have expected a more creative approach from the Academy of American Poets in their search for gold (that’s metaphor for offering membership to get funding). Dear Friend, Today it gives me great pleasure to invite you … Continue reading
REALITY?: Happy Mothers Day
Celebrate, appreciate, honor, enjoy!
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REALITY?: Another ‘Marriage is…’
Marriage is the doctor leaving the room as you undress to get into a top-only johhnycoat and your husband, who has teased you always for your shortness, hops up from his seat as soon as the door’s closed to go … Continue reading
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REALITY?: The Real-life Version of TV Medical Drama
Blogs can be helpful in dispersing information about all facets of life, and while what we read as ‘personal experience’ should never be taken as fact or generalization, some things are important enough to pose as examples of possibilities in … Continue reading
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REALITY?: Priorities, or the Magic of Prednisone
Funny how, when death or disease may threaten, we may not run in fear of its face, instead, return to the solace of those very habits that offer comfort and leave to fate our own. Yet faced with loss of … Continue reading
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REALITY?: Through the Mill
Blood tests finally taken, been to dentist for xrays, had a skull xray, and saw a rheumatologist. Have a suspected condition but biopsies of my temporal arteries will confirm or refute. At least we know it’s not allergies, an infection, … Continue reading
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WRITING & REALITY?: Lost Time
Drifting in and out of dopiness and pain–I don’t know which is worse. I’ve not been writing but finally buckled under and begged my best friend Nancy to read the last two short stories I’ve been working on since I … Continue reading
REALITY?: Witch Hunt
Watching the msnbc documentary Witch Hunt about the 1984 roundup and wrongful conviction of several Bakersfield couples as child molesters and it just reminds me how easily people are persuaded to do or believe the craziest things in the name … Continue reading
REALITY?: Swinish Flu-like Fever
Been pretty much flattened out for the last several days by swollen glands in my neck and the resulting soreness and pain there, in my throat, in my ear, and all topped with a headache that makes my scalp sore … Continue reading
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REALITY?: Spring/Summer Saturday
My shop is outdoors inside. Whatever the weather is what I am too. Sometimes the rain tries to seep through the slats and I find myself weeping along. This morning I turned on the gas stove; now I turn on … Continue reading
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EDUCATION & REALITY?: In a New Age
Lisa’s comment on Facebook this morning catches me cold: Instantaneous access to information appears to be eroding our ability to thoughtfully reflect. And it makes me stop and think. And try to form an opinion by experience. When I read, … Continue reading
REALITY?: Seeing the World ‘From Both Sides Now’*
On Talking Philosophy, an excellent example of working logically through a problem by seeing all the angles, in this case, on airline seating for the obese passenger that is currently under consideration. *Sorry for the ‘retrotalk’, this is a phrase … Continue reading
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology