My Morning Rant

I was on Facebook this morning and started to write a morning greeting in response to a post by a local autism center," "The latest British Medical Journal paper about autism and vaccines, which provides evidence that the initial report linking autism and vaccines was fraudulent, and the media coverage that ensued, miss an important point…" ...and since my thoughts wouldn't fit the character limit... I brought it here. Firstly, I was stunned to...

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Psst... Guess What??

I have a new love interest... Yup, It's true and it all started this past summer. I was passing another kidney stone while at Mamapalooza Columbus. I had taken Percocet the night before with no relief. After a sleepless night, I told hubby (as a committee coordinator) I was going to the festival regardless of the pain or not… besides being up and moving was the best way to get this stone to pass naturally. At the festival, the stone caused...

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Mental Illness does not equate Evil!!

I was surprised to see that nobody else was bothered by Sarah Palin’s use of the word “evil” to describe a mentally ill individual in her recent video. Although, I am not surprised… that would not have caused such an up roar among the media, journalists, blog-sphere and people as the phrase “blood libel”. Of course they [the entities listed above] ran with the “blood libel” reference… okay my instincts say to give her critics that, but I just...

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