many things make a post
January 31, 2012
(An update: On Wednesday last, I caught the cold that the kids had been kind enough to share. By Friday morning, I couldn't get out of bed, if only because I kept falling asleep and didn't want to fall down on anything harder than my mattress. End of story: bronchitis, sinusitis and a scary eardrum. I'm on drugs now and have more sprays and unguents than a person probably should. Still, I have stopped feeling worse. So there's that.
(Admittedly, that's probably more than you wanted to know. Sorry. I once had an editor point out that illness makes me loquatious. He wasn't wrong.
(Right. So, my point: things are moving slowly if at all. Hence, a short list of "many things," because I haven't been spending much time in front of the machine. Which is also why I probably owe you email.)
* The hazard of false nostalgia. Also: I don't know what to make of this. You?
* I just... go look.
* This exhibit scared the poo out of me as a kid. Apparently, it made an impression on others, too.
* Even the idea of this makes me queasy.
* What the "Real Housewives" can teach us.
* Phil Williams is a mensch. As is Martha Boggs. (And, oh!, how I miss the Bistro's food.)
Yeah, those buffalo wing cupcakes, which are actually muffins don't appeal to me at all.
Posted by: Jen Anderson | January 31, 2012 at 12:12 PM
Hope you feel better soon. Where are those cats, why aren't they doing their job, keeping you warm and cozy?
Posted by: Phyllis | January 31, 2012 at 12:50 PM
Go. Lie down. Put a warm kitten on your forehead. Inform them to make with the healing purrs.
Hope you feel better soon. And in an aside: Going to SPA this year?
Posted by: anj | January 31, 2012 at 05:06 PM
I hope you're all better soonest. Bright-eyed and bushy tailed and all that.
Posted by: Heidi | February 01, 2012 at 11:22 AM
Feel better soon. We won't miss a post from you..
prayers for you.
Posted by: Becca | February 02, 2012 at 10:07 AM
The mass hysteria article was interesting. One thing that strikes me: the use of the word "hysteria" seems a bit problematic. It seems maybe dismissive even though the article suggests something real (though mysterious) is happening psychologically and physically.
Posted by: Sarah | February 03, 2012 at 04:58 PM
That was what got me about that article, too. Clearly something is going on - but I'm not sure that calling it "hysteria" is helping.
Posted by: Adrienne | February 06, 2012 at 04:18 PM