We are getting to be like old people.

Diseases and annoyances that I have discussed with friends today: hot flashes Hepatitis C bipolar disorder breast cancer reaction to HPV vac...

The cool part of Birmingham or: Kafka in 'bama

If you ever find yourself in Birmingham, Alabama, and you want to be reminded of, say, East Berlin not long after the fall of the Wall, when...

The Reluctant Guest

So I decided to have some kind of little seder on the second night of Passover, some of this and some of that, not really a seder because se...

The Hostile Bitch

When they first met, the young woman was saying that she turned down a great job to stay home with her son. Cancer Bitch wondered what the j...

Cutbacks

Management decided that the workers were drinking too much tea. Specifically, the various types of tea that sat in the cabinet in the break ...

Platelet dreams/Brooklyn screams

I know that other people's dreams are usually boring, so I'll try to fly through this one really quickly. I dreamed that I missed th...

Old Before My Time

I don't like to complain, a student once said to me, and I took a chance and said, I think you do. In fact I was meeting with him becaus...