Although heart disease is often thought of as a problem for men, more women than men die of heart disease each year. One challenge is that the… Read more “Lessons learned”
Author: Crazy in Suburbia
Diagnosis: Irregular heartbeat … Treatment: Pacemaker
The information that the John Muir medical staff collected from the heart monitors was pretty clear. I had an irregular heartbeat and the cardiologist was pretty clear… Read more “Diagnosis: Irregular heartbeat … Treatment: Pacemaker”
When your heart stops
What’s happening to me? I said something like that as I was moving myself from a kitchen stool to the kitchen floor. The ground was disintegrating, while… Read more “When your heart stops”
Vive La Revolution, even if it makes me "too political" or there’s no campaign slogan–yet
So, the Occupy movement is supposedly returning to Walnut Creek today. It is scheduled to start at 4 p.m., again in front of Bank of America at… Read more “Vive La Revolution, even if it makes me "too political" or there’s no campaign slogan–yet”
"The gentle rain from heaven"
Some mornings, I wake up feeling like that lost raptor in the famous W.B. Yeats poem: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear… Read more “"The gentle rain from heaven"”
Modes of self-sabotage
Last weekend, as I was doing errands, I noticed that my car’s gas tank was less than a quarter full. It was a Saturday, I wasn’t super… Read more “Modes of self-sabotage”
Pushing back the Brown
What is the Brown? It’s this feeling that sometimes creeps in, or, at other times, sweeps over me like a wave. It is a mix of self-doubt,… Read more “Pushing back the Brown”
Quote o’ the Day: What do you love?
The things that we love tell us what we are. –Thomas Aquinas, 13th century philosopher and theologian
They were rock ‘n’ roll
One of the fun things about working with an arts organization is that I get to go on amazing journeys of discovery. I can watch rehearsals for… Read more “They were rock ‘n’ roll”
Quote o’ the Day: Something that spoke to me today
“One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
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