February 2009

Thursday, February 26, 2009

It took a lot out of me when she took a bit out of me

It never ever ends. I had some spotting (not on my face) in late December and early January, and since that can be a sign of uterine or endometrial cancer, and because those cancers can be caused by tamoxifen, which I'm taking, I knew I needed to see...

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

A votre santé?

Choose your poison. A new study of more than a million British women indicates that if you have one alcoholic drink a day, you're more likely to get breast, liver and rectum cancers. Of course, a drink a day is good for your heart. But your healthy heart...

The Balboa Island Underground!

The undergrounding of utilities is perhaps the greatest way of increasing land values on the planet. Little Balboa Island, by the way, has already completed itsundergrounding. So, what is up with those on Balboa Islandthat wish continue to fight the...

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Government to Provide High Quality Education

Human’s life is affected by many aspects, such as economical, politics, culture, and social. Perhaps there has been enough attention and actions taken to deal with the first four aspects, but sometimes both the government and the society forget and often...

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Why Michael Phelps needs to move to Newport Beach!

Hey Mikey, how come you don't come to live the life righthere in Newport Beach? Haven't you heard of us? What'swrong....we have ReHab Homes? You could probably buy afew for your friends and pals from the East Coast, as week-end crash pads. It would be...

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

AWP

It started out in the '60s when there were just a handful or two or three creative writing programs in the country and the directors of them wanted to get together to compare notes. Now it is this huge conference of maybe 7,000 this year (I heard it...

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Lark & Owl

There are larks and owls and I've always been an owl but I try every so often to become a lark. I went to bed early last night and had a devil of a time getting to sleep. I was going to go to sleep early tonight but I got home from school around 10:30...

The Impact of Technology in Education

Technology plays important roles in our life. It enables us to do our activities easier. Something that might be so difficult to do in the past, can be done easily with the technology innovations. No want will argue that technology also give huge impact...

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Intensity

My high school best friend J had breast cancer before I did. It was a very early stage (maybe zero?) but because cancer runs in her family, she had a double mastectomy (and reconstruction). I remember her telling me that in a way she missed the intensity...

Saturday, February 7, 2009

The Senate Stimulus Bill, Newport Beach, and all America stands for

I am not the type of person to mope around very long. I believe I have a pretty resilient spirit, and I am a deep believer that the only long term realism is optimism. I can not recall a time that very bad news personally, professionally, or ideologically...

Friday, February 6, 2009

Visions of Newport Beach's Impending Doom?

While Newport Beach is bickering with Irvine, bickering with their residents, and bickering with the state, the expansion of John Wayne Airport continues...Best part of the OC Register Article (I'm at it again, poaching original stories from news sources...

Bail Out the World...

Funny stuff...when you think about it. Hank Paulson, BenBernanke and most of the Republican leadership....all votedfor the first $700 Billion dollar giveaway. The money hasgone down the big black hole of Wall Street. Bank mergersbecame all the Vogue....

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Web Weirdness

I joined Facebook about two weeks ago, just in time to get in before the fifth anniversary of the network. I found this very bizarre notice just now:"The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum recently launched a fan page in Facebook. You are invited...

The Book

My kind editor at the U of Iowa Press FedExed me a copy of The Adventures of Cancer Bitch. I got it yesterday and brought it to Show and Tell today, where it was roundly oohed and ahhed over. My first local reading is March 25, but I have others before:~Reading,...

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Free Guide of Online Dating

As you might have also realized, the number of workload can sometimes keep you at the office. Meaning to say, you don’t have much time to socialize whereas in fact, you do need to meet other people such as friends and also need to make friends. Involving...

World Ringtones

Mobile phone is one thing that can’t be separated from people’s life nowadays. It is the very important communication tools that being use by most of people around the world. It has various shapes that can attract people to use it also the features that...

Dating Services

For some people getting date for their life is kind of hard. Not all of people can get the partner for their life as easy as other. Usually someone who never falls in love will find very hard to approach any women on their life. Sometimes when they have...

Knows the Marketing Strategy

For consumers, we also need to know about the marketing techniques used by companies to maximize the selling of their products. We often think that companies use bad marketing method which makes customers as their victims. Many people get bad experiences...

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Older

I was talking on the phone to R today, and she told me about her hometown best friend who has a terrible blood disease. What is it? I asked. I was pretty sure what she would answer. I was right: Polycythemia vera. Oh, I have that, I said. Mine is almost...