About a year ago, I read Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking , a memoir about the sudden death of Didion's husband, John, and her daughter Quintana's serious illness.  I don't remember much about the book except for the concept of "magical thinking."  In ...

He informed me that my surgical hat made me look like a penis. That made me laugh on a not very happy day. About a week and a half ago, we found out that my pregnancy of 7 weeks - the one that had been a complete surprise after almost a year of trying - wasn't viable.  On Thursday we had a...

On Saturday, I had my first acupuncture appointment.  I have to say, I never thought acupuncture would really be a "thing" that I would do.  I always sort of had a skeptical yet live-and-let-live attitude about traditional Chinese medicine.  But people kept telling me to ...