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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Does getting medical care really have to be this hard?

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["Can't you please just fit me in somewhere?" 18th-c. engraving] If you're my friend (or have read my blog), you know ...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Our summer vacation: 10 ways that moving house is like 2 weeks in Yucatán

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[Chichen Itza, Yucatán] [Our new front door] July is the month when everybody in our neck of the woods goes on vacation. Everybody...
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Sunday, June 15, 2014

What's missing in the fight against puppy mills

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Another day, another puppy-mill outlet. I was distressed to learn yesterday that Naperville, Illinois - the next town over from where I ...
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Thursday, May 29, 2014

The worldwide obesity epidemic - bad reporting, fairly useless advice, and government subsidies

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[(c) Showface|Dreamstime Stock Photos] One of this morning's headlines from Worldcrunch "While You Slept" : More Than A...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Papa don't preach - but family-friendly work policies would be nice

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[Alfred Stevens, "The Widow," 19th c.] "Single moms are rarer in America than France, Sweden, New Zealand, the UK, or the...
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Monday, April 14, 2014

Killing people is hard to do

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[Moose's last photo] Twelve years ago we took our beloved Maltese dog, Moose, to the vet and came home without him. Moose was in the...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Liminal Living vs The Impossible Dream

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[A. Casolani, 16th century] We are househunting. Will our new place be a relatively new condo with no exterior maintenance, plenty of ...
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