Apologies if you’re not a basketball fan (and particularly if you’re a Golden State Warriors fan), you may want to skip this post… Although I now live in Austin, I was born and raised in Northern Ohio. If you’re a fan of professional basketball in the United States, you know that the Cleveland Cavaliers finally broke the drought of sports… Read more »
It’s June, and here in Austin, that means that the summer time temperatures are climbing. We had a lot of rain over the past few weeks; but the forecast for the next 15 days are full of sun icons and 90 degree temperatures. As I walked to work today, I suddenly realized that I did not remember to put sunscreen… Read more »
Sorry I’ve been a little quiet on the blog for the last couple of weeks. I’m recovering from surgery for something completely unrelated to melanoma. It’s funny how much your body will force you to rest when it undergoes something invasive. I couldn’t keep my eyes open for days. However, I know I’m on the road to recovery when my… Read more »
So, I am a massive fan of Duran Duran, have been since the first time IÂ saw “Hungry Like The Wolf” on MTV way, way, way too many years ago. (Yes, I’m that old that I remember watching videos on MTV. And “Hungry Like the Wolf” was a video my mom and I would bond over while watching…) I had posters,… Read more »
I live in Texas, where there’s been a pattern of rainy weather moving in. Fortunately, I don’t live in Houston, which has been inundated with 20 inches of rain and counting in the last week or so. Texas has been in a long-term drought situation for a number of years. In fact, when I moved here seven years ago (wait,… Read more »
It’s February 4 (at least on my side of the world) and it’s recognized as World Cancer Day. I wrote a blog post last year today that dealt with the weirdness of having yourself in the group of “cancer survivors”. Another 365 days later, it’s still weird. Sometimes, I forget I was diagnosed with melanoma, skin cancer, and then I… Read more »
By now, the horrific details of the attack on Paris are all over the news, even in self-absorbed United States. I was working yesterday afternoon when the first reports started coming through and throughout the evening, the news grew worse and worse. This isn’t a post on skin cancer. This is a post on the cancer that seems to ravage… Read more »
This past weekend, I attended the Austin City Limits music festival, more commonly known (at least to people here) as ACL. It’s 3 days of a ton of music, repeated for 2 weekends, 8 stages, 130 bands. It’s a music-lover’s nirvana, with all different genres of music – rock, rap, EDM, country, even kids’ music. I walked miles every day…. Read more »
So, I will say up front, there’s a strong likelihood of salty language in this post. There is a “trend” of acquiring a sunburn in a pattern and calling it #sunburnart. First of all, I’m going to say this the clearest way possible – these people are idiots. Sunburn is never “art”. Sunburn is skin damage. Sunburn is painful. Sunburn… Read more »
So, in what seems to be a summertime ritual for me, I am again suffering from a case of what I lovingly refer to as “the dizzies”. Every summer, I end up with a horrible bout of what doctors refer to as vertigo. None of them can offer any explanation, nor does there seem to be any decent treatment except… Read more »