A Natural Scientist

Today, my friends, I have collapsed into bed, where I am playing "Influenza Or Side Effects?" This would be a great exercise in an...

WORK:  Hey, my job is... boring.  Easy, but also boring .  By the third time around with the same lab, I am really a little tired of it. ...

Well! I have recently been to visit the nice doctor for, I thought, a refill of the boring asthma inhalers.  (Though not - I specified - the...

HEADACHE: Mostly gone.  Hearing probably also 5% reduced, but I'll take that over a perpetual knife in the ear.  Let's say a 2. F@...

 A very long summary of how I came to give my baby (some, as it happens, as opposed to all) formula; with FEEELINGS My students' late...

The next time you are full of woe, overwhelm-ment, and sadness, Self, ask yourself if you have a terrible headache?  Ask yourself, have you ...

I'm going to have to confine my remarks to things NOT having to do with my multitudinous feelings. Item: I continue to loathe all pers...

Our otherwise very good family doctor said to give "limited" amounts of nuts to the baby before age one.  Well, I'd already gi...

1)  I can't quite articulate why, but it's like a giant weight has lifted, simply because I have work for which I receive both respe...

Ever since I was pregnant with Tatoe (he's two and a half now), some moderately bad health things have been happening.  They are mostly ...

(Adapted from Smitten Kitchen's recipe ) Dear Readers, do you know how I feel about insult (can't eat anything) being added to inj...

- a question asked me by a well-meaning person regarding the whole allergic-to-everything fiasco. Here is what I think happened (note that...

So I'm sure you're all deeply curious about my FEELINGS.  Especially about suddenly being unable to eat anything, and therefore soun...

Today at Oh-God-Thirty, I am off to be anesthesia-d and sinus surgeried.  I have avoided looking up anything whatsoever, so I don't even...

I keep discovering, generally the hard way, that there are yet more things that make me feel extremely ill . (Recently: tapioca starch - whi...