Tree Splooge
Spring is a miserable time of year. First, there’s the weather. The damnable, changeable, hot-then-cold-again weather. The tornado, thunderstorm, wildly […]
Arkansas, Environment, Health, Humor, Personal
Health
Children, Health, News, Science & Skepticism
Breast Cancer Awareness
Breast cancer has taken the lives of women we knew and loved, and has made the lived of other women
Health, Personal, Science & Skepticism
Eye Cancer
One morning in 1999 I went to my optometrist for a routine eye exam. It was time to check the
Health, Mental Health, Personal
Fear of Addiction
Recently a friend of mine wrote a blog about addiction that touched my heart. A friend of her children’s died
Conversations With Children, Health, Lawyer, Personal, Philosophy, Religion
Happy Birthday, Daddy
Today is my Dad’s birthday. He would have been 71. He died five years ago and I miss him more
Children, Health, Lawyer, Travel
We’re Going to China!
I’m going to be an Auntie Anne again. Or maybe a godmother. I’m getting another baby from China, and I’m
Book Reviews, Children, Health, History
Iditarod Trail, 1925: The Serum Run (Part VI)
Togo Leonhard Seppala had gambled with the crossing of Norton Sound and won. He had crossed during the daylight hours
Book Reviews, Children, Health, History
Iditarod Trail, 1925: The Serum Run (Part V)
Half an hour after Charlie Evans and his dead lead dogs had arrived in Nulato, the serum was thawed and
Book Reviews, Children, Health, History
Iditarod Trail, 1925: The Serum Run (Part IV)
Newspapers had picked up the story of the epidemic early. As the tone of the telegrams between Nome and the