Neighborhood trash.
I’ve been walking through my lovely neighborhood of Elkins Park since 1987, at all hours and through all seasons. About 10 years ago, I starting picking up trash if it was near to my path. My thought was that by leaving it there, I was making a choice for it to stay there. Last summer,.. read more →
Healing trigger thumbs.
Trigger finger is a painful condition that causes the fingers or thumb to catch or lock when bent. In the thumb its called trigger thumb. This happens when tendons in the thumb become inflamed. I woke up one fine May morning with my left thumb catching when it was bent because the first joint wasn’t.. read more →
Honor vulnerability.
Today’s feature from my favorite comic strip is this: http://fborfw.com/strip_fix The little girl is proud of her pigtails and is showing them off to her daddy, seeing confirmation of her cuteness. Instead, she gets undermined, as her dad makes a joke out of it. She is vulnerable, he hurts her, and then makes it her fault.. read more →
Women hold up half the sky.
I came of age in the golden era for women, after Roe vs. Wade was passed, and before herpes and HIV. Reliable birth control was readily available; I experimented and indulged without fear of death or disease in a way that my culture had previously permitted only to men. No one was hurt during the time.. read more →
There is no escape.
I volunteered for a clinical trial to test the impact of low magnitude mechanical stimulation on bone. To be included in the study, I had to go through several rounds of screening. The first, by interview, was easy. The second was by Dexa scan, to measure the bone mineral density in my lumbar vertebrae and in the head.. read more →
Singing trees.
When I was growing up, any comment about animals and plants having any consciousness or emotion or thought was sure to bring derision, eye-rolling, and rejection from my father. In his eyes, such notions were “unscientific” and “voodoo”. I grew up learning that attitude and enjoyed being judgemental and righteous when I encountered anything in.. read more →
