Decaf coffee isn’t putrid and doesn’t have to taste like a mysterious blend of Aquanet and black tea. In fact, when using the right bean, the bolder the better (decaf Sumatra is my fave) , I would almost call it good.
Bee pollen, while looking like a spoonful of mustard-coated stamen fresh off the flower, [...]
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Facebook is not an online time-suck to which I’ve subscribed. I did the Friendster thing, I did the MySpace thing, but the truth is I have enough friends and I am not interested in building relationships with half-naked fake girls looking to add me to their all-male rosters.
Yesterday, my friend Orion stopped me on [...]
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11 AM, Saturday morning, I was but a smiling young man so carefree and quirky.
2:45 PM, Saturday afternoon, I was a prepubescent man-boy with a mouth full of metal.
Two years of cheek expanders, tongue trappers, swollen lips, and soft foods. Two years of panic attacks and claustrophobic dental visits with me pushing the orthodontist [...]
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I called Dr. Reya this morning to find out the results of my blood tests, and as it turns out everything is fine. My testosterone, progesterone, prolactin, FSH (follicle stimulating hormone) LH (luteinizing hormorne), and pH levels are all normal. There could have been other things she tested me for, too, but I got [...]
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My childhood best friend, Sarah, got married in Lancaster, Pennsylvania over the weekend - the heart of Amish country. Our trip began auspiciously as both Constance and I battled a nasty stomach bug. Four hours before the flight I was locked in the bathroom wondering if a plane trip was truly in the [...]
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Dr. Reya insisted that I go see her favorite urologist, to wait until February 7th, because he is, in her esteem, “brilliant.” I told her I didn’t want to wait, but after Constance’s ultrasound it didn’t really matter because she has 3 cysts that are too large to enter our last Clomid cycle. [...]
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With our new insurance, moving from a PPO to an HMO, we had to designate a new primary care physician in order for us to continue seeing Dr. Reya and, ultimately, for me to make an appointment with the urologist to whom she referred me. Constance, bless her patient customer-service soul, took care of the [...]
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We had to use a flashlight to see for ourselves. The bathroom lights had been out for 5 days, inexplicably, and all bathroom activities thereafter had been completed in the dark. It wasn’t a blown fuse or bad bulbs, it was something for which we couldn’t discover the cause. Living without light [...]
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Today is Constance’s mom’s last day of radiation and chemo, and in 5-7 week she will undergo her surgery to have the cancer removed. Anyone who’s known someone who’s gone through radiation knows that this is a celebratory day. Susan has third degree burns as a result, and will finally begin to heal. [...]
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Kids will believe almost anything you tell them, which is the foremost reason why they are more fun than dogs. That and kids eventually learn and retain the fact that expensive loafers should never sub for a midnight snack in a pinch. On Monday night, Constance and I babysat for Kyle and Holly’s children, [...]
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