Listening to ghost stories on the radio this morning made me wish I had a ghost story to tell. Then I realized have do have one – maybe even two.
But the one I’m really thinking about today has to do with some strange happenings on the VGH Burn Unit in the early 1980s. I started [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Haunted Hospital
Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Group Dynamite
Posted in Uncategorized on October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a lot of talk about group dynamics and how to get along in groups. We’re supposed to be good team players. But what happens when someone doesn’t play by the rules? Judging from all the websites that offer courses on how to deal with difficult people, there are one or two individuals out there [...]
Vitamin I
Posted in Uncategorized on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For years I was a strong believer in Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid). While I still think it’s a wonder drug, more recently I’ve discovered Ibuprofen. It helped me through a worrisome knee injury, and since I was taking it so regularly, I started calling it Vitamin I.
This week there were reports of a study on anti-inflammatories such as [...]
I say tomato, you say tomato
Posted in Uncategorized on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s the season to celebrate the tomato. The plant I’ve been babying along all summer is weighted down with fragrant, sweet and tangy tomatoes. There’s nothing finer than pulling a warm red tomato off the vine, rinsing it off, slicing it in half, sprinkling it lightly with salt, and eating it in two juicy gulps.
Over [...]
