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Please Don’t Do Me Any Favors

Communication means clarity, both ways. Sometimes that’s slow and clunky and sometimes doesn’t exist at all.

Coping with the Holidays

The overall secret sauce to great holidays is planning. I want to say that there are some things that you can do and I am sure that there are. I also want to say that part of coping with the holidays is to understand that you will be very tired when it’s over....

How American Healthcare Gets it Wrong

Birate Doctoral by Wikimedia Commons This morning I watched a show about Israel’s healthcare system having found (after much experimentation) an effective treatment for TBI (traumatic brain injury)and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). The show demonstrated how a...

Having Children, Or Not?

Why do we have children and should we? A brief look at the current statistics and costs of child bearing.

20 June 2024 My Diagnostic Nightmare

Diagnosis can elude you and make you suffer for longer than you need to. That can cause a disconnect with healthcare providers who can’t figure it out.

You Can’t Boycott Medication

I really wish that Ralph Nader was back. I was a child when he was doing his work, but what I remember is the word boycott. When companies were being unfair in their business practices or when products were no good for you, we were told, don’t spend your money there....

And Then I Was Done

Mothering Addiction And You’re so Angry With Me Why? You could have asked me any question, at any time. You didn’t. Instead, you used the time to attack, to bruise, to hit. You didn’t seem to care that you were doing as awful damage as anyone to anyone.  I am 60,...

Rejection is not my Sadness

NGC1097 by ERIS Too much of my life in sadness. Living my life in fear of having sadness, running from one sadness to the next. There is this sadness that burns through me and doesn’t leave. I felt it this morning. I have had such rejection as cannot be measured it is...

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