Right in the middle of the Christmas season, all my online software providers decide to upgrade their programs, and just to make the point that I gotta upgrade NOW, the Russians storm my comments section with SPAM. Don’t they have nothing better to do with themselves? Obviously, they don’t have issues of buying cards, making…
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Telogen Effluvium: The Dirty Secret of Stress
There’s a condition doctors won’t tell their patients about. It sneaks up on an unsuspecting person; when you suddenly realise what’s happening, doctors dismiss it, relatives poo-poo it. It’s called telogen effluvium. In short, massive hair drop or the big sink clog or the human hair pillow. Yes, folks, your crowning glory falls out and…
The Toronto Catholic Board Ponders Axing The Arrowsmith Program
One of the things I found incomprehensible was why the medical model of brain injury rehab insisted on compensating strategies to cope with cognitive deficits over trying to treat the brain itself. First off, compensating strategies are piss poor ways to overcome the problems of deficits in the higher cognitive skills like reading; and second…
Parliament 101
I usually use my other blog to pontificate on all things politica, but couldn’t resist posting here my video on Parliament, made for all those who think coalitions are somehow an anathema to our Canadian Parliamentary democracy and have never happened before.
On Bookpiggy’s Nightstand
Awhile ago, I participated in miniBookExpo and had my book claimed for review. I didn’t see anything appear and just about forgot about it. But I follow minibookexpo on Twitter, and one of its tweets got me to check out its site and then to look for Lifeliner’s reviewer. And much to my sweet surprise,…
Blogging on Canada, The Coalition, and Harper
I’ve had one heck of a fun day, blogging and tweeting on the rapid political changes happening in Ottawa. The House of Commons has suddenly become a bloodbath, but instead of the red stuff coming out of the Liberals, it’s coming out of the Tories, with Prime Minister Stephen Harper ironically the lead butcher. I’ve…
Thoughts on Living with Tape on One’s Chest
What’s it like to have something stuck to your skin, year in, year out? When I was writing about Judy Taylor, I didn’t spend a lot of time imagining this, probably because for her, the G-tube (gastrostomy tube) consumed much more of her thoughts with its incessant leaking onto her skin than her catheter or…
A Lactose Rant: Goat’s Milk vs. Cow’s Milk
The Oprah Show was interesting today, looking at the Blue Zones — places where centenarians thrive in good health — and Dr. Mehmet Oz, Oprah’s medical guru, served as the guide for the show. Dr. Oz, with his partner, also writes a column for The Toronto Star, talking a lot about nutrition. He’s a cardiac…
The Sheriff of Nottingham Works for iUniverse and Amazon These Days
You may remember I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the lack of sales information from iUniverse. Well, today the sales reporting software worked, and I just about choked on my hot chocolate. I called up iUniverse to see if I’d misread the figures, but nope, they were right. To backtrack a bit, so…