Archive for 2013

While you’re waiting for the bus

Stuff worth reading Colorado city wants more than just a ban on fracking Um maybe nucleotides aren’t actually dangerous? And are found in rather large numbers in the cells if all living things? Global Insight: China’s silence over US snooping is golden – FT.com Stooping to their level. West End Memories Project: Nadine – 1 […]

When your doctor doesn’t care

That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing. — from Joan Didion’s essay, In Bed Early this year I had a very bad migraine that lasted a very long time. It was triggered by withdrawal headaches from a medicine that was supposed to help my migraines. After […]

While you’re waiting for the bus June 7, 2013

Stuff worth reading China’s sense of superiority and injustice is a potent mix Spot on Girl Computers | American History Lives at American Heritage Welded Shovel Pine Cones by Floyd Elzinga <3 A Mental Leave From the Reality of Chronic Illness Chronic illness crushes you by constantly shutting the door in your fae Share and […]

Sacrificing fashion to migraines

I’ve had a migraine for the better part of two weeks now. Sometimes it’s awful, a lot of times it’s bearable. But I’ve been largely confined to the house. Every time I tried to leave my comforting basement with its dim lamps, the light made me sicker, despite the fact that it was overcast pretty […]