What’s Your Risk?

Your Disease Risk from the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention guides you through short questionnaires to judge your risk of various kinds of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis and stroke. I’m doing better than I thought. Better than I would…

Happy Day

We had a lovely day, although with a slightly smaller crowd than in past years. wordcandlemage was sorely missed, as a migraine kept him at home hiding from the wicked daystar. dracofrost‘s stepmother was ill, so we didn’t have the…

Got an Extra Room?

GLBT Host Home Program The GLBT Host Home Program offers adults in the community the opportunity to open their homes to homeless queer youth. Young people needing homes are connected to adults with extra bedrooms. It’s really that easy! Hosts…

I Have a License!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This is one of those odd turning points when you have a license to be a cute brat in charge of mischievous healing. I dare you to stir up the exact kind of trouble that will…

I Knew It Was Too Early for Senior Moments

Chronic pain may permanently shrink the brain The Northwestern University team had previously shown patients with back pain had decreased activity in the same brain region called the thalamus. This area is known to be important in decision-making and social…

Poetry: Happiness

Happiness –Jane Kenyon From Otherwise New & Selected Poems There’s just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away. And…

Note to Self

No matter how much you like it otherwise, spanikopita is not an acceptable breakfast. No, really.

Very, Very Monday

I was awakened this morning by a phone call. “Cyn? I was in an accident. I need you to come get me.” Hearing a partner say that on the phone guarantees an instant wake-up. Thankfully, curiousmay9 is fine. Her car…

Weekend Report

Well, it was a busy weekend, and I was looking forward to a quiet Monday. I didn’t get it, but it could have been much worse. Friday night, my marvelous family hosted a birthday party for me. curiousmay9 and I…

Poetry: Yes

Yes by William Stafford From The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems It could happen any time, tornado, earthquake, Armageddon. It could happen. Or sunshine, love, salvation. It could you know. That’s why we wake and look out–no guarantees…

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