Dear Kiri,
Even though I’m not a Breeder your blog about contemplating life while pregnant spoke to me on a lot of levels.
I thought about my friend Wendy who was murdered, and how horrible it was for her mother to lose her daughter so suddenly and brutally.
I thought about my mother, who could have just as [...]
Dear Dr. Hyman,
Once again you have written an absolutely brilliant expose on something most people take for granted as a necessity in their dietary lives, such as wheat and wheat-based products. It’s a testament to our grab-and-go world that values convenience instead of healthiness that this hidden Celiac Disease epidemic has gotten to this point. [...]
Many of the things that I did in the Naughts Decade. I probably left out a bunch, but anyway.
Thank you, Dr. Hyman, for this brilliant post.
A month ago I was stricken by the worst abdominal pain I’d ever experienced in my life. At the time, my husband and I thought it was prolonged menstrual cramps, but when the pain persisted long after my period ended, we knew it was something else. I was [...]
Another lovely and relevant post, thank you Ed & Deb!
Normal stress is compounded for me by also dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder and I have to be very aware of which kind of stress may be affecting me at any given point. I find that drinking too much alcohol or eating things I’m sensitive to [...]
As an American living abroad, I was mortified to see this display of idiocy on the international news. Do the Republicans have any concept of how embarassing they are and what damage they are doing to what was the slowly improving image of the USA worldwide?
President Obama has been trying to repair the damage done [...]
Thank you, Kiri!
Another fabulous and thoughtful piece. I know exactly what you mean: When I was in college I had a severe allergic reaction to antibiotics that completely destroyed my system. It was years before I recovered fully, but in that first year of healing I was a 5′9″ woman weighing 105-110 lbs. All my [...]
Sadly, I’m not surprised to read that the chemical content of food products would be different and healthier for the European market than at home. The standards in Europe for food is much higher and those kinds of chemicals simply don’t stand by EU regulations.
I was also shocked to see that companies like CNN [...]
My introduction to Ethiopia and its cuisine was in a Rastafarianism, Reggae, and the African Diaspora course I took in university. What struck me the most was learning that Ethiopia had never been colonized, and is one of the few African nations never to have been. Not for lack of trying, mind you. The Italians [...]
Written on a postcard of a scale carrying so much weight the needle is almost off the screen:
You fill mewith disgust.
Where a stamp could go but there’s no room left:Chateau, PragueMay 31, 2009How did you let yourself go like that? And don’t tell me it’s genetics, because when was the last time you saw an [...]
Fever isn’t just a great song by Peggy Lee. In fact, fevers are the body’s first defense against invading bacterias and viruses. A fever can effectively kill microbes without you even needing to take any medicine, although they can indeed be uncomfortable, what with all the sweating, shivering and the like.
The only time to really [...]
Written in bathroom steam:
You don’t know what you’ve got’til it’s goneand refreshingly back again.
Where I hang up my towel:October 20, 2008Benatska 5, PragueAfter 8 weeks of double wrist injuries: I just bathed my own self and dried my own hair without any help at all.What a feeling.
Written on postcard wrists using ultrasound gel:
NoPainNoGain
Where a stamp could go:October 20, 2008Lekarsky Dum (The Healing House), PragueI had no idea you’d be so rough.Then again, I’d no idea that six weeks with both hands in braces would feel better than this.
Written
with my left hand:
Slow going, indeed,but each day a little bit furtherforward with you.On a fingernail I imagine:October 7, 2008PragueThankful.I am very, very thankful to have you in my life right now.
Confronting Cholera: My Zimbabwe Diary
Dear Emile,
This is a beautifully written piece about your experience in Zimbabwe. I love that you’ve gotten involved with Oxfam, an organisation in which Chris McCandless believed so much; he would have been so happy that he inspired you to get involved. But I also appreciate your candor describing not only the Zimbabwe that you [...]
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