Where's your wife?

Cancer Bitch recommends that you do not ask this question. She has asked it twice in the last 2 years and it was awkward in the first case. So why did she ask it again? She is a slow learner.In spring or summer of 2007, she greeted one of her husband's...

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The Passive Cancer Patient

She said, Did you ask your oncologist what she thought about the calcifications?I said, No, I forgot. Then I thought better of it and thought maybe I had asked. I said, I think I did. I keep forgetting about it.She said, It seems you either are at zero,...

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Changing the Charter?

Larry Gilbert is a long time activist, investigative reporterand good friend over the last 10 years. Larry recently justwrote a quick blog for the other blog....we write for:www.orangejuiceblog.com which is a high volume blog that wasdeveloped by Art...

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Does Newport Beach Want Successful Businesses?

Hello again...Long time huh?Nowadays, it takes lots to get me soo fired up that I cannot resist researching, formulating, and spouting off at the mouth (or at the keyboard.)So here we go again, and forgive me if it feels rusty.Chronic Tacos' plans denied.Good...

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Old School...New School.....Again?

We had a cool fog blow through yesterday morning. Itcreated a lot of wet on our deck and we had to get theshop vac out to clear out all the puddles. We still have our SC flag up from last Saturday's debacle. Wekeep the battle flag up for the whole week...

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Talking to a stone

I am the stone. I've heard over and over that exercise is important in keeping breast cancer from coming back. I even have an exercise book especially for bc survivors. I haven't looked at it for months and months. But I keep getting emails from our...

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What's on my food?

I found a new-ish (launched this summer) website that tells you what pesticides you're ingesting with each piece of fruit or vegetable. Kind of; it tells you what was on a sampling of foods in 2007, and what damage those pesticides can do. It's part...

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Follow-up

Swedish researchers found that eating foods that were high in acrylamide did not cause breast cancer. To wit: During a mean follow-up of 17.4 years, a total of 2,952 incident cases of breast cancer were diagnosed in the cohort. In multivariate analyses...

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Hello, Sweet; Good-bye, Crunchy

First the sweet: A pot of bright tomato-red-orange lilies appeared in one of our flower beds yesterday. It seems new, since the tag is still on it, and we plan to plant it. Our across-the-street neighbor denied any knowledge of it. Did someone receive...

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Di ujung Perjalanan Rusli Zainal Sang Visioner

Bagaimana Kabar Rusli Zainal Sang Visioner sampeyan? masihkah di optimasi?Tidak lama lagi kontes ini akan segera finish dan melahirkan seorang jawara seo baru. Jika tidak ada perubahan posisi dalam 3 hari ini maka untuk pertama kali sepanjang yang saya...

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Eat, drink, be merry and quick & get health insurance

The New York Times reported today on a study by the American Institute for Cancer Research. Conclusion: Women can cut their risk of breast cancer by almost half if they stay lean, exercise at least 30 minutes every day, breast-feed, and limit alcohol...

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On a scale of one to ten...

That's what they always ask you: Where is your pain on a scale of one to ten?The question, of course, is, what's ten? I imagine ten to be Joan of Arc at the stake. A man being hanged. Amputation without anesthesia or even a bullet. I don't know ten....

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Cancer has left the family...

downtown Litchpatch...as far as we know. My mother-in-law's melanoma was removed from her leg, skin was grafted over it, and there's no damn cancer in her lymph notes. She's walking around and changing the dressing herself, which is good because her...

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Sonia's Antibiotic

My mother is a subset of the category of Typical Jewish Mother--she's elegant and tasteful, The Jewish Jackie Kennedy, my cousin has called her for decades. She's as anxious and fearful as the stereotype, or more so, but she relays her doubts not in...

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Dr. Kiff and the Time Machine!

Soon, our City Manager Homer Bludau will be followingin the footsteps of Chief of Police John Klein and willbe seeking early retirement this month."The talk on the streets ..s all too familiar..strange expectations...everyone is watching you....." from...

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