The Grip of Artificial Chaos

WHO AM I ?

I'm a mother, a wife, a knitter, a doctor, a gamer, a nerd. I have bad habits but a great life.

This is my space to talk about the stuff that strikes me: medicine, politics, games, yarn, recipes. It doesn't always pull together necessarily, but it doesn't need to. That's kind of how life works.

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History with a capital H. Alternate Title: Please Don't Do That Sexist Thing.

So, as you all know, unless you're purposefully hiding under a rock, that Hillary Clinton was officially nominated by one of the two...

Treat the Patient

Waaaaaaaaay back in the 1900's (1998, to be exact), I was a lowly 2nd year family medicine resident in Jackson, TN. In 2nd year, our...

A Gathering Place

Back in the 1960's, my dad and some other forward thinking folks, Dave Drum among them, sat down and discussed what my hometown needed....

Obituary.

Thursday, the 28th, I got the call. You know the call. It's the one I've been dreading for some time now, since my father's stroke in...

Is Tracer Too Sexy?

So, Overwatch. A game I have pre-purchased. A game I'm looking forward to playing. May can't come soon enough for me to play it....

Is it really that expensive?

So, I spend a lot of time talking to my patients about their diets and lifestyle choices. We talk about ways to get more exercise here...

My Goat's Already Gotten

We all have that one, ahem, friend. You know the one. He has some weird ideas about how the world works. Or maybe he doesn't. She...

Cubii: initial thoughts

So, what seems like forever ago, I supported a kickstarter campaign for Cubii, an under the desk elliptical. I discovered it as we were...

Boys Need Female Hero Toys, Too

Once again, Disney has a hit with an action movie prominently featuring a female character. I'm talking, of course, about Star Wars: the...

Prayer Shaming, Grief Shaming, Shaming Shaming

Now, with the massacre in San Bernadino, CA, in all of our minds, there have been a number of responses to the usual "thoughts and...

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