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
Month: April 2014
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
Heisenberg and Your Prostate
Uncertainty Principle: A principle in quantum mechanics holding that increasing the accuracy of measurement of one observable quantity increases the uncertainty with which another conjugate quantity may be known. Perhaps it is because I just got back from Albuquerque, a city which has become like a second home to me, that I have Heisenberg on… Continue reading Heisenberg and Your Prostate
Make Yourself At Home
I try not to sweat the small stuff. Really I do. But when I leave home, and leave my menagerie in the care of a house sitter, I am nothing if not explicit. The directions for the care and feeding of my four dogs and two horses (the cat got a reprieve from his Boston… Continue reading Make Yourself At Home
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
Anxiety
Nearly two years ago, I sat with my younger sister at the airport in Houston, Texas waiting for our respective flights. She was going back home to New Jersey, and I was headed back to California. While waiting, she passed the time browsing SAT prep sites on her iPad. Her oldest child, my nephew, was… Continue reading Anxiety