The older I get the more an inveterate, unrepentant liar I find myself becoming. The mechanism is essentially a simple one: the lies I tell tend to offer ready relief from whatever tension I’m feeling at the moment. Take just the other day – I was at the DMV and the examiner asked me how [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Liar, Liar, Brain on Fire
Posted in Uncategorized on July 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Repairing Good Brains Gone Bad
Posted in Uncategorized on July 19, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Last week, the story of Lt. Collette McLennan, a Seattle firefighter, played on our local news. She took herself to the hospital eleven days after finally realizing her brain might be damaged. She was operated on for a brain aneurysm and back at work full-time four short months later. Here’s the part of the story [...]
Learning to Love Learning
Posted in Uncategorized on July 12, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Amanda’s mother and I were very fortunate to be able to send her to an alternative neighborhood school – the Peninsula School, founded by Josephine Duvenek in 1925 on the San Francisco peninsula. I was recently reminded that it’s a true Tinkering School by the presentation here at this year’s TED conference by Gever Tulley [...]
How to Give Kids Cancer
Posted in Uncategorized on July 5, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Here’s a recently published study that I hope will turn out to become a landmark and be the last of its kind that ever needs to be done: Child Abuse and Cancer. Essentially, abused children run almost a 50% higher risk for contracting cancer later on as adults than those who haven’t been abused. Admittedly, [...]
