Elephant in the Room As a medical writer, I’m always thinking about metaphors to help explain what cancer is like, or how certain drugs work. I have been thinking lately about how I could describe sin. What is sin like? Maybe it’s like toilet paper stuck to your shoe, or a massive green booger […]
I make my living as a health writer and I mostly eat healthy food. I even gave up eating my beloved Frosted Cinnamon Pop Tarts years ago. But like a salmon driven by instincts so primitive and fundamental that it risks its life and being eaten by grizzly bears and eagles to swim upstream, I […]
I am wearing a new watch with this amazing feature: it tells time! That’s it! I do have an Apple watch, all plugged in and ready to go. It’s perfectly fine, works great, tracks my every step, my calories, and my heart rate. It can even do an EKG – and I’ve done […]
If you are one of my new neighbors and you were minding your own business – maybe sitting outside enjoying the morning, having a cup of coffee – I’m sorry. I just walked the dogs again. This should be a fairly straightforward event. A transaction, if you will: I will take you […]
Due to some Apple software glitch, I have two Siris. They are both Irish. I like having Siri with an accent. For a while, she had a British-Indian accent. She’s been Australian, and now her Irish relatives are on the job. It was going so well. Irish Siri is cheerful, upbeat, thoughtful: […]
You might look at the words, “Prostate Wine,” and think: “I’m pretty sure I don’t want to drink that.” Completely understandable! But be assured, dear reader: this is not some far more gross version of Swamp Butt, or even anything remotely distasteful. Actually, it’s a wonderful thing. A celebration. A bright, unexpected spark after a […]
I miss the mall. So much. Not our current mall, limping along with its few stores, just hanging on by a thread and devastated by yet another blow, aka global pandemic. No, I miss the mall from back in the day. I miss the mall packed with people, no stores boarded up, where if you […]