Posts filed under “Books”
Pain Relief
I was thrilled and scared at the same time. I marveled at how everything in life was now so incredibly easy with this relief: returning phone calls, doing errands, cleaning up. I remember stopping in the middle of the aisle at the Jewel grocery store and feeling as if I would float away to the […]
On living with chronic pain and having a social life
If I went out, I was drained. If I canceled plans, I felt detached and guilty. When you’re in pain, hell is other people, and hell is also the absence of other people. The stark reality is that you basically have to suffer your pain alone and in silence. In the beginning, you can talk […]
BookMooch
So I know I’ve written here about BookMooch before, but I just got The Triple Helix through BM today and was reminded of its awesomeness. If you like books and aren’t using BookMooch, go join!
am i a hippy now?
When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably doesn’t matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy […]
do you exfoliate?
Make sure you’re using something like St. Ives Apricot Scrub that has ground up organic things, like jojoba seeds or walnut shells. A lot of brands use plastic to scrub your skin off. This is bad. According to Richard Thompson in Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us They’re selling plastic meant to go right down […]
in vain
I finished reading Susan Faludi’s The Terror Dream today. It was an amazing book that detailed our response to 9-11 and compared it to how we responded to another national crisis: the conflicts with Native Americans when the nation was forming. Basically, we create a myth of weak women as a way to make the […]
on lesbians
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes So it seems that Henry’s sister has never been the same since the war, because she never had on a man’s collar and a necktie until she drove an ambulants in the war and now they cannot get her to take them off. Because ever since the armistice Henry’s sister seems to […]