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Thursday, January 27, 2011

How I "made up" the Biggest Lie of my life...

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(...and then finally did an About Face)      (December 2013) A friend who's known me for many years recently threw out this casual r...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Roubidoux is a basket case

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So we were made for each other. We're also inveterate poseurs, but he's better at it.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Elderly Girl Helps Win the Civil War, and then Conquers 1890s Paris

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    (1/19/14) After chopping off her fabulous hair, binding her bounteous breasts, and gluing a mustache above her oh-so-kissable lips, El...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

The golden gaze: My kitty's final premonition

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Catalina, 1994-2013     (Jan 16, 2013) For nearly 20 years, my cat and I had a complex, rewarding bond. During the first few years, ...
Saturday, January 8, 2011

2B or not to be: An apartment mirrors an existential dilemma

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    In the middle of my decade in New York, I lived in apartment 2B of the William and Clara Baumgarten House, at 294 Riverside Drive....

FTC action proves yet again that Oz's ethics and expertise need to gain weight

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Sorry ladies: Acai is no weight-loss miracle. Oz misoverestimated it.     (Jan. 8, 2014) Four companies that sell weight-loss product...
Thursday, January 6, 2011

I don't "kneed," you Dr. Orthopedic Surgeon. Get Bent!

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WHAT A FEELING! Being cut open for your doctor's fun and profit!      (Jan. 6, 2014) Months after I had expensive and ineffective k...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Does 2014 Make You Look Fat?

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HAPPY 'YOU' YEAR 2014 Ignore negativity, and reject the pressure to conform.     Let's begin with the premise that al...
Sunday, January 2, 2011

My Fairy Princess Decree: $100,000 a year (at least) for every working adult

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Let's end income inequality by equalizing incomes. Is that so complicated? .       (Jan. 2, 2014) I have just now been informed tha...

Lupus update: It flared, I glared, and it slunk away

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Oh no -- not again.     (Jan 2, 2015) In 2010, I developed a florid, oozing red rash under my eyes while my dad lay dying in the hospi...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

Unwrapping a Psyche on a Dark and Stormy Christmas Eve

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                Happy Holidays! Or something!                 art by Justinian Ghita                                    (Dec. ...

The Ravaged Face of Delirium

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Before delirium: a face of radiance, serenity and beauty. (photo courtesy of Gina Kronstadt). Even after four days of treatment,...
Friday, December 24, 2010

'Enthralling' blogger unlinks herself from a 'Chain of Fools'

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"You treated me mean: Oh, you treated me cruel!" Aret ha Franklin     (dec 24, 2012) My five-part, 25,000-word series on fi...

I'll be "Home Alone" for Christmas

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Macaulay Culkin was freaked out at first. Then he had a blast.     (dec 24,2014) I'll be home for Christmas, but it will be my ...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

I am not a crook. Almost always never.

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          (6/23/11) I had just arrived in Denver last night from New York, hoping to start a wholesome new life away from all those Big...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

My Vitamin Addiction, a Delightful Affliction

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    Part Two of "My beautiful so-called eating disorder"     (12/18/2014) It started when I moved to New York during what ha...

Consorting with the Consortium

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After it ranked University of Utah Health Care  No. 1 in the nation, could anyone,  anywhere, take its program seriously? The U....
Monday, December 13, 2010

Online Obituary Site is Doing it to Death

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He calls it capitalism. I call it identity theft.       If one of your loved ones were to die, would you mind if an aggressive, profit-m...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE: The political, economic, ethical, environmental, educational, social and psychological collapse of "The Greatest Nation in the History of the World" -- which was really a ruthless, hypocritical, paranoid, power-mad criminal enterprise -- is near completion. Protesters will be shot.

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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

It's a Dead Man's Party: Bring Your Body In the Door

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Occasionally, the unsavory idea of embalming can become quite appealing.     (6/23/2014) Wow, could grief get any more decorative? ...
Friday, May 7, 2010

Non-Scents: Why would you want text messages that smell like bananas?

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An oPhone docking station.     (May 7, 2014) Oh great: Now those callous manipulators in the laboratory of nasal domination are trying t...
Friday, March 12, 2010

Oh Father, Where Art Thou?

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My Dad donated his body to science 28 months ago. I was notified yesterday that that they  have finally finished with him, and whatever...