Information and opinions on health from Anna Leahy at HealthCentral.com. HealthCentral.com is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties. http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/509916/index http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/509916/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/profiles/c/509916/index http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/509916/67606/barbie-migraine Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:51:00 -0400 Anna Leahy   Barbie Gets a Migraine             —after Denise Duhamel’s Kinky   You’d think Barbie wouldn’t suffer, her hormones always in perfect plastic balance without taking The Pill straight through. She laps dark chocolate and a Willamette Valley pinot noir as if there’s no tomorrow, as if there were no yesterday. Her pretty lips don’t... http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/509916/67606/barbie-migraine http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/509916/67603/negotiating Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:43:04 -0400 Anna Leahy Negotiating with Migraine             after “In Bed” (1968), an essay by Joan Didion about migraine     If only it were only the world gone vivid, the colors more colorful than I have a right to see. If only it were simply hearing the far-away bird chirp, the petals of a flower stretching open, the complexity of song. If only it were just the skin feeling... http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/c/509916/67603/negotiating