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Sunshine
When God created the sun, He called it good. In recent years we have been told that God was wrong. Doctors—and hence parents,...
sursumcorda, 22 May 2005 |
Who Will Make Medical Decisions for You and Your...
While the United States is busy wrestling with the so-called right to die, in the United Kingdom it's the right to life that is in...
Who Are You?
The statistics for this blog tell me that I have had over 1400 unique visitors so far. Since only a handful have left comments, it...
Aaannd, That's Why I Like Frazz
Sometimes I like the Frazz comic because of its references to things that have meaning to me but are relatively obscure (like the...
"Virtual Doctor" Is Not ALL Bad News
Parents in Rochester, New York no longer have to stay home with sick children, nor be inconvenienced by having to take them to the...
Now They Tell Us
I'm am really tired of reading about procedures that were once known to be right now being shown to be useless or even harmful....
05-05-05
Happy Cinco de Mayo to all!
Cancer Screening
Regular breast self exams, pap smears, mammograms, colonoscopies, prostate exams, full excision and pathological examination of moles...
National Teacher Day
So today is National Teacher Day. (I know because Google told me so.) Since this blog includes rants against the terrible damage...
Who Will Make Medical Decisions for You and Your Family?
If this story doesn't scare you, you need to read it again. (Here's another version .) A 14-year-old Canadian girl has gone into...
Work
Hard, painstaking work is the toll an independent spirit charges itself for self-respect. — John Taylor Gatto
But What about Socialization?
"Socialization"—the homeschooler's "s-word," the final recourse of opponents and skeptical relatives who,...
Epidural Risk
Watching our grandson grow, seeing his parents making choices for his care that I wish we had made with our children, knowing much...
Credit Card Debt, School Loans, and Health Care
Janet needed a chest x-ray as part of a pre-employment physical. Having been advised that insurance would not cover the procedure, she...
Let the Baby Drive
Let the Baby Drive , by Lu Hanessian (St. Martin's Press, New York, 2004) Recently we opened a bottle of wine of far higher...
Who Reads Food Labels?
Better yet, who proofreads them? I was curious to compare the ingredients and nutritional value of the two varieties of soy milk in...
The Cultural Benefits of an NBA Franchise
I don't normally read the sports page, but Porter called my attention to last Friday's Orlando Sentinel , and an outrageous...
EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival
Squeezing in one final visit before our Disney World passes expired, we went to EPCOT last weekend to see their International Flower...
The Joy of Living
With one friend recovering from a life-threatening illness, and another still in the midst of one, I shouldn't need anything special to...
Mozilla Products
I've been using Mozilla 's Firefox browser for some time now, and have recently added their Thunderbird mail client. Not that I...
Cranberries for Your Health
Studies have already confirmed the traditional wisdom that drinking cranberry juice contributes to a healthy urinary tract . Now...
Nothing to Cheer About
When Terri Schiavo dies, there's going to be cheering, and I don't understand why. I know there will be cries of exultation because of...
Too Clean to Be Healthy?
Once again, Florida is making national headlines , this time because of the mysterious outbreak of serious kidney disease, hemolytic...
Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday is the most wonderful day of the year! Acknowledgement of this in the "everyday world," however, is so rare that it lifts...
Practical Christmas Presents, Useful Lenten Discipline
This Christmas, Heather and Jon gave me a collection of contemporary "praise and worship" CD's. This was a welcome gift, not because I...