Stuart Scott’s Acceptance Speech

Sometimes I feel like what I have to say isn’t very important and after watching a video clip of Stuart Scott accepting the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance tonight on ESPN, I think you might prefer to hear from him.  Background:  Stuart Scott was diagnosed with cancer of the appendix in 2007 and has been… Continue reading Stuart Scott’s Acceptance Speech

The Things We Save, The Things We Give Away

Since I just spent the last several months sorting through my own lifetime accumulation of “stuff” in order to get my house ready for sale, it was only fitting that I volunteered to chair the auction and raffle at the Scottish Deerhound Club of America’s annual National Specialty show, held in Richland, Washington last week.… Continue reading The Things We Save, The Things We Give Away

Love and Loyalty From the Souls of Dogs

“Such sadness and endearing and abiding love…”  Fran I am by nature a “right brain” person—despite my training in science and medicine, I prefer paintings and photographs to words and mathematical constructs.  Over the past two years of writing this blog, I have resisted on many occasions the urge to add pictures to this website,… Continue reading Love and Loyalty From the Souls of Dogs

Rethinking The Hunger Games

When the movie The Hunger Games was released in the spring of 2012, it broke box office records during its opening weekend.  Not familiar with the books of the same name for young adults by author Suzanne Collins, I did not rush out to see it but I liked its young star Jennifer Lawrence, and… Continue reading Rethinking The Hunger Games

The Irony of It All, Part Two

The dogs are quiet today, sprawled out across their various rugs and beds in the family room.  After the panic and anxiety caused by the fires here in San Diego last week and the heat that generated them, it is pleasant to feel the cool breeze created by opposing windows in my kitchen.  I am… Continue reading The Irony of It All, Part Two

# WeddingFail

From Twitter today–jimmy fallon ‏@jimmyfallon Hashtag game! Tweet out something funny, weird, or embarrassing that happened at a wedding and tag with #WeddingFail. Could be on the show!   My friend Jackie just got back from a family wedding on the East Coast.  She probably had no idea that Jimmy was auditioning #WeddingFail tweets for… Continue reading # WeddingFail

Feet Don’t Fail Me Now

On Friday, once again, I cancelled my elective bilateral foot surgery, cheilectomies to ameliorate the effects of decades of running miles a day on hard pavement and wearing high heeled shoes to work. Like many other physicians faced with the dilemma of elective surgery, the “what-if’s” got the better of me—what if I get an… Continue reading Feet Don’t Fail Me Now

Love in the Time of Cancer

I used to be able to paint my own toenails but that was before age and arthritis caught up with me and these days I can’t SEE my toes, much less paint them.  Here in the land of perpetual sunshine and flip flops one is not allowed to have ugly feet, so off I went… Continue reading Love in the Time of Cancer

It Helps to be Famous

Boston is a mighty fine place to visit, if you don’t mind the weather–my trip to the Harvard Writer’s Conference this week started out with four straight days of freezing rain punctuated only by gusts of wind.  But cold feet and wet shoes could not deter me and my daughter from our appointed rounds of… Continue reading It Helps to be Famous