Always a Silver Lining… The Upside of the Great Pager Swap Fiasco

If you read my last post, you might think the Great Pager Swap 2009 was all hassle and no payoff. But you’d be mistaken.
I have an unpredictable schedule that can keep me away from a computer for big chunks of time. I also have in-laws with dial-up whom we visit frequently.
Like every other author seeking [...]

Today, In a Nutshell… or Pages and Pages

Today has been an uberwacky sort of day. Here’s a little rundown of the highlights:

Woke up. Late. (cuz I was up late coughing. It’s the end of a stinky virus)
Scuzzled around like a madwoman and lead-footed it to work.
Arrived to big banner announcing that the hospital is switching pager service providers, which means the stinging [...]

The Doctor is In. In Deep Smit, that is…

Friday again. Yippee!
And this week I am deeply smitten with my awesome blog readers. As you probably know, I’ve been co-authoring the QueryTracker.net blog since December. I’ve recently started a feature there answering writers’ medical questions for their works of fiction.

It’s been a heck of a lot of fun, and the questions are now starting [...]

Musical Musings

Someone today mentioned great “Dance Movies”, one of which was West Side Story. This reminded me of an inspiration I had for a silly project back in medical school…
A parody of West Side Story, about rival insurance companies. The sweet young couple love each other dearly, but cannot wed as their preexisting conditions [...]

Heartstrings

Music is extremely important to me. All types of music.
I love the melody and the rhythm, but they are mostly a vehicle for me to mainline powerful lyrics.
So, I recently watched “Easter Parade”, being as the season was right for it. And, as always, Fred Astaire sang about how he was “Drum Crazy”.
I’m [...]

Open to Interpretation

I saw Juno last night with my husband and enjoyed it immensely.
The main character’s repeated questioning of “‘Sexually active’… what does that even mean?” reminded me of an incident during medical school.
During a rotation in the ER, one of the medical students I was working with saw a teenage girl who came in with [...]