You could have pandemicked better. In March of 2022, the most fascinating video podcast you’ve never heard of will celebrate its second birthday. The use of the word “fascinating” assumes you have been rocked back on your heels by the velocity of information — mostly unpleasant — coming at you…

“Can you do anything about the other students? They keep posting COVID-19 conversations in the discussion group, even when it’s off topic. Please, I was hoping school would be a respite from talking about the virus.” There is a hunger to move on, as summer beckons, to begin a post-pandemic…

What if I offered you a cancer that could be surgically removed, but which also was likely to recur? You could be cancer-free after surgery, technically, but hanging over your head, for the rest of your days, would be another tumor, ever possible. A cancer without remission. No escape. You…

(Republished from extinct blog) November 2004 Ok, so I’ve always been a bit goofy around famous people. It hasn’t happened often, but when I’ve had a brush with people In The News (“…with Christopher Glenn,” am I the only one who remembers this?), it’s been downright embarrassing. Until last week…

Well, certainly. The first panicked days I was all over the Google machine, trying to learn as much as I could. I highly recommend this, as I learned enough to know my first lab coat experience was inept. For the searches, I used “incognito” mode on my Mac and Firefox…