Fucking Fucking Fuck. Mankletooth Bastard has won Top Chef is Sullied. Yeah, I know. It’s hyperbole. And generally hyperbole makes me want to set myself on fire. But I really feel—I really do feel, my loves—that a Hosea win has completely blackened the good name of Top Chef. This is not like H...

A couple days ago, more definitive evidence that the professional helmet-smashing lifespan of an NFL player has detrimental effects on the human brain. It still probably won't change the way the game is played. Researchers at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) used the brain...

Filed under: Health & safety, Medical conditions Before Christmas, my three-year-old fell while running and hit her head on the edge of a table. She started screaming, and when I picked her up, she went limp in my arms and seemed to lose consciousness. Though she woke up within seconds, my husba...

As I waited to vote this morning, in a line that stretched all the way from my polling place at the end of one block down to the next block and around the corner, waiting for over an hour and a half in temperatures that got increasingly cold and windy as we all stood there, determined to fulfill my ...

Thanks to Mary Emma Allen for guest posting on Blog Fabulous. Mary Emma Allen writes four blogs for b5media: Alzheimer’s Notes Quilting and Patchwork, Home Biz Notes , and One Book Two Book. “Setting my kids up for Alzheimer’s! No way! I’m a good mom,” you exclaim. R...

This week’s episode of House had a great set-up and a clever medical mystery. The medicine itself was only so-so, but the rest of the episode mostly made up for it. The episode starts with House getting a lap dance at a strip club. He soon realizes that he has no recollection of how he got the...

This week’s episode of House had a great set-up and a clever medical mystery. The medicine itself was only so-so, but the rest of the episode mostly made up for it. The episode starts with House getting a lap dance at a strip club. He soon realizes that he has no recollection of how he got the...

Apparently since hitting my head last week I’m a complete scatterbrained ditz. Friday I kept thinking, “I’ve got to get this candle order out, I’ve got to get this candle order out.” After all, the order had been placed on Wednesday and if I’ve not shipped by the ...

Like Mold, Brain Trauma has become another major piece of the health puzzle for me, as many of you know, and I have written about it extensively here in the past. So, I have organized all the posts and made it a new online chapter of Wellness Piece By Piece . The Brain Trauma chapter...  A New ...

So close, yet so farWe never met “Mean P,� andNow we never will It’s kind of odd to have to write about Project Runway on February 14th. Because clearly there are other things I could be writing about today. I mean, we all know what day it is. It’s Arizona Statehood Day! Happy Birthday, Ariz...