OM The Five Recollections 31 Oct 201828 Feb 2019 I've read a fair bit about Buddhism, but this is the first time I've stumbled across these teachings summed up in quite this way. The Five Recollections are kinda youchie.…
OM The Cost of Cancer Treatment, Part 2 8 Oct 20188 Oct 2018 I've talked about this before. And I'm pleased to report that, despite their representative's assertion, BCBS has, in fact, been paying for my care. Originally, I was looking at anything…
OM Thrill of a Gain 21 Sep 201821 Sep 2018 A platitude is precisely what is left of a truth after it has been drained of all emotion. --Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind, P. 251 Positive thinking experts…
OM Resonance 4 Sep 20184 Sep 2018 One of the joys of being a compulsive reader is finding resonances between books I'm reading concurrently. If I'm cynical about this phenomenon, it's part confirmation bias and part "nothing…
OM The Poison Path 31 Jul 201811 Sep 2019 I've written about peacocks before. In Buddhism, the peacock is a good and powerful symbol. The ancient myth is that a peacock’s brilliant plumage is created by the peacock’s eating…
OM X Marks the Spot 3 May 20183 May 2018 In The Emperor of All Maladies, Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote, "[T]he statistical confluence of a rare profession and a rare tumor [can] swiftly identif[y] the causal agent of [a] cancer."…
OM… Sermon on Getting Angry 29 Mar 201829 Mar 2018 "Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something." --The Man in Black, from The Princess Bride I'm in an odd place right now, in more ways…
OM Living for 90 Days at a Time 6 Mar 201829 Mar 2018 I'm in the pipeline for normal life again. Imaging is good, bloodwork is good (enough), Kiddo and Hubby are doing well. In short, I'm up for living for another 90…
OM Jinx 24 Jan 201814 Jun 2018 I need to quit asking the universe to give me sanity. Because it seems to have a vicious sense of humor lately, the universe brought me a 100 degree fever…
OM Catching Up With Myself 23 Jan 201823 Jan 2018 Well, the holidays are over and it's back to regular life...or at least as "regular" as life can be when your kid has had almost as many snow days as…
