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My fave “dad named his daughter” was Keitha Leah. Her dad was Keith Lee.

A girl in my school was Crystal Leer. Her middle name was Shanda. You got it: crystal chandelier

Years ago, watching Rachael Ray, she suggested putting a “garbage bowl” on the counter while cooking. As you cook, put all the vegs trimmings, butter wrappers, garlic peels, etc., in the bowl & empty it into the garbage later - instead of opening the below-sink cabinet 1,000 times… Read More

When it came time to make up the calendar for coverage over the Christmas holidays, one manager insisted - every year - that he had to get Christmas Eve off because it was “a family tradition”. Hey, what about the many other people who did things on Christmas Eve, too?

I was in grade school in the 60’s. When I became an adult, my mom gave me my report cards from back then. One has haunted me my whole life. Sixth grade, my father died suddenly 2 months before the end of the school year. Not only was I in shock, but imagine my mom suddenly having… Read More

The most over-used, grammatically incorrect terms in the medical field...calling something or a situation “emergent” when they mean urgent or emergency. “The patient was coding, it was emergent, so we got him to the ER, STAT.” Or describing a high priority, must meet, deadline as… Read More

First visit to an endocrinologist to see if I needed to take thyroid medication. He is asking questions about symptoms, etc. He palpates my neck. Then he says, Many women with thyroid disease have dense breasts. Lie back so I can do a breast exam (as he lays me back). Realize, I’m… Read More

I was at my annual visit to have a med refilled. I’d gone to this doctor for 20 years. I was in my 50’s, with severe osteoarthritis in my right knee, bone on bone, so severe that I could not stand in line or walk across a store without severe pain. I literally was hobbling thru life.… Read More

Thru the 2nd half of elementary school I was the tallest student, by a head. Tall, and a little stocky. My girlfriends were all little slender girls, later developers. At my 6th grade parent/teacher conference, the teacher told my mom “Your daughter is rapidly becoming a young lady,… Read More