I took yesterday to make some staples to have on hand for the upcoming weeks. Mark and I are trying to figure out what I should and shouldn’t be eating. We were supposed to meet with a dietitian on my first day of chemotherapy treatment but for some reason, her schedule was backed up and she couldn’t meet with us. The doctor did give me a short list of things to eat but I wanted maybe some options and recipes as well.
After a deep and restful night's sleep, I can usually count on NPR's Morning Edition for a jolt of blood-curdling reality to start my day. Here's the NPR story on censorship that grabbed me today: Seeing The Internet As An 'Information...
This was a highly irritating story on NPR's Morning Edition today: Trucking Rivals Fight Lobbying Battle Over Legislation In short, back in 1996, language was put into a must-pass aviation bill which classifies FedEx as an airline, not a trucking firm — preventing...
(X-ray image from CDC website) Nothing wakes up an amateur hypochondriac like a harrowing and deadly fungus disease story on NPR's Morning Edition. Here is today's: NPR.org: Fungal Disease Spreads Through Pacific Northwest The fungus is Cryptococcus gattii, and as...
Early yesterday morning, I heard an interesting On The Media special about the future of the music industry. Long story short, it's floundering. Back then, I had never heard of Pomplamoose. Update: Pomplamoose show Beginning January 18, 2011, a live webcast show --Hey...
When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon 40 years ago this Monday (that's Buzz Aldrin pictured above), I was nine years old and absolutely transfixed by the entire mission. I had several plastic Revell models of the various spacecraft — the...
I wrote about getting turned on to Regina Spektor back in January, 2007. This morning, she was interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition: "Regina Spektor Hears Magic In The Inexplicable." It's interesting to hear how the Beatles influenced...
As I have written here previously, we visited the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis back in 1999. The museum is housed within the former Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was gunned down 41 years ago tomorrow evening. This morning, I heard on the...
Since radio is dead, I've been listening to even more public radio than I already did anyway. Just now on NPR's All Things Considered, I heard a little thing about some carp and ducks that was unlike anything I have ever heard before. It...
Speaking of Oprah, Sarah Terez Rosenblum has a Chicago Sun-Times story today about Robyn Okrant, a writer-performer who has been living her life according to Oprah for darn near a year now: "... I have to breathe a certain way, I have to savor every meal, I have to be...
In his special comment about "sacrifice" last night, Keith Olbermann spoke of the way President Bush has been able to "deaden the collective mind of this country to the pointlessness of endless war, against the wrong people, in the wrong...