And the facts on most health problems aren't in on obesity.  Is Diabetes 2 a fat thing, a food habit thing, genetic or a random occurance?  Does the fat person control his blood sugar becuase he stops eating ice cream or because, as a concequence of not eating sweets, he loses some weight?  For that matter, should the thin employee who eats a Snickers bar at her desk also be penalized of unhealthy behavior? Read More

I've been writing about my mother's rapidly declining health recently.  This week we needed to make some painful decisions about where she will be best taken care of in the short term before we can move my parents into assisted living near family. Read More

It's a perfect game because it's a pan-gender return to childhood when the words "let's pretend" had more meaning than "you're hired".

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Entombed in that air conditioned, quiet house with theoretical commitments rather than times in a day book, I need to remember that when people and things belong to someone, that someone is in charge.  If belonging is mutual, then so is the power.  I'll be there with as much say in the disposition of me as my parents have. Read More