Earlier this year, I attended a taping of the only show devoted to Real News of the OC, Real Orange, at the former KOCE-TV in Huntington Beach, Calif. The station had just assumed the expanded role of … [Read more...] about Kiddy cats: The sheer joy of pets
My mother, Mary Louise, taught school for 35 years and she loved (almost) every day of it. “The children,” she would say often, “are such a joy.” Of course, not every child was always a joy, but in … [Read more...] about American Idle? Work works for baby boomers
Say it three times and it’s yours. Anacetrapib: It is part of the drug class of cholesteryl ester anise protein (CETP) inhibitors. If you have high cholesterol, you may wish it was yours. I’m … [Read more...] about The good, bad (cholesterol) and anacetrapib
Plop. There they’d go again, reading glasses sliding off the ski jump of my nose. I’d push them back—that is, when I could find the darned things. Losing my near or up-close vision was one of the … [Read more...] about There’s something in my eye: a corneal inlay
I wasn’t sure I’d survive the 2010 holiday season, gasping for New Year’s air after the most gut-wrenching experience of my life. It left me damaged. I’ve learned a mother lode bout ego, greed and … [Read more...] about Caregiving: the sexist business
Ya’ gotta’ hand it to the awesome gals at Aging but Dangerous™. They didn't let any grass grow under their feet or any polyps in their colons. Take The World’s Largest Colonoscopy Party, held March 31 … [Read more...] about Every party needs a pooper: This one had plenty
