Wipes are one of mankind's greatest inventions. You know, those things that pop up out of a container like Kleenex and come in a lot of different varieties. There are the ones for cleaning baby bottoms (and faces/hands). Then there are the actual cleaning ones that you use to clean your bathroom or kitchen. Of course, now you have wipes for things... Read more
My biological father, Stephen, died last fall, three and a half years after being diagnosed with ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease). It's a horrible way to die. You lose control, usually slowly, of your entire body, although your mind stays the same. Stephen wasn't in pain until the very end, fortunately.I visited Stephen and my stepmother,... Read more
Sometimes a job is just a job, but for most people it's more. It's our second home and often provides our second family. It can be either the provider or the destroyer of our self-worth. We define ourselves to a great extent by our work - after all, what is one of the first questions we are asked when we meet someone new? "What do you... Read more
Arrrghh. I thought that I finally had a good combination of antidepressant medications to treat my depression. A few months ago, I talked to my psychiatrist about the possibility that Wellbutrin, which I've been taking since 2000, is exacerbating my anxiety. He suggested that we reduce my Wellbutrin dosage to 100mg once a day and added Lamictal,... Read more
Ten years ago, during the height of the dot com boom, I worked in the advertising department of an online community. I was what they called a Traffic Coordinator, and was responsible for making sure that the ads for my group of advertisers ran on our website when and where they were supposed to. I also sent traffic reports to the advertisers that... Read more
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