Yeah, there's lots of differences between men and women when it comes to the body. That we know. My 2 year old daughter is definitely interested in my penis. I'm not talking about that kind of difference. It's something else I've noticed recently: Women seem to have a much more "natural" relationship to illness. They seem to speak about it frankly and without as much shame (and denial) as men. Am I imagining this? In the writing class I teach, we often go around the room and ask ho...
0 commentsHad the kale last night at M Cafe. I need to be eating more of that stuff. I've grown so tired of salads. My rash has radically improved and, as a result, I have no real sense of purpose or meaning left in my eating life -- at least not in my healthy eating life. The rash focused me. Now I'm aimless, confused. I've been eating red meat with a vengeance, and shellfish too, and as of the last week or so, I've been drinking coffee again, and wine without spitting, and spicy food too. All these f...
You may (not) have noticed that I'm writing several blogs on this site. When I get a little high (and narcissistic) on good wine (as I did a few times this weekend) I get into the idea that I'm writing several (four, to be exact) different blogs and that these four blogs represent different aspects of my personality. So cool . Wouldn't it be great if someone (besides me) took the time to analyze these blogs and get a sense of my whole being? Heaven! Analyze me. Deconstruct me. Know me. Show m...
My two year old knows when she's hungry and when she's not. She loves ice cream but after five bites, it's enough. She loves pasta but when she's filled up she says, "I'm all done", completely irrespective of how much is left on her plate. Can I ever get back to that state of Nature, that Eden of eating? Probably not, is my best guess. I'm shoving food in my mouth today because my wife is pissed at me. I could analyze this to death (it's my "mother complex"), I could medi...
Okay, so guess what happened? My rash returned with a vengeance -- on the sides of my body, on my chest, and right here along my waist. Just as I was hypothesizing that the rash was passing, possibly forever, it came back hard. Why? Well, probably because I started to jetison all the dietary restrictions , including red wine; and also because summer arrived in full force and, in the perpetually simple (and wise) words of my acupuncturist, "sweat affects the skin". It's worth noting...
You know those moods? Where everything is just uggghhhhh? Whatever. I've been oddly dizzy the lasy few days, which has made me think all kinds of crazy thoughts: brain tumors, strokes, heart attacks. Went to the acupuncturist, he said it was just some inner ear stuff, nothing serious, and likely related to how hard my body has been fighting this rash . Oh, yeah, my rash. Status report? Way way better. The itchiness is so much better. The rash itself is still there, still visible in certain pl...
