About a week ago my mother was hospitalized after a rare reaction to the antibiotics she was given for pneumonia which caused her lungs to seize and interrupted her breathing. She was shopping with a friend of hers when she collapsed and had to be rushed to the hospital. Thankfully she’s making a full [...]
Archive for the ‘Body’ category
A very gory vegetarian festival
RB and I just returned from two weeks in Thailand. We saw and did the things one does there – snorkeling, hiking, riding elephants, kayaking, visiting temples, that sort of thing. But we also witnessed something most unexpected – something we happened to read about in a magazine and rerouted our trip especially to see.
It’s [...]
In-body experience
The morning starts with a fluttery feeling in your midsection, somewhere between a stomachache and seeing the object of your junior-high crush in the hallway between classes—excited, but kind of nervous, too. Then the anxiety dissipates until it’s just a low electrical hum buzzing through your limbs, making you want to get up and [...]
Soy Un Perdidor
Since Parrish has propped the door open with The Donald’s Helmet, I decided to step inside the boardroom and confess my own reality show guilty pleasure: While this is arguably not as horrifying as Celebrity Apprentice, every week I tune in to bask in the ample folds (eeewww) of The Biggest Loser.
This season’s title [...]
A trip to Spa Castle
What are the greatest contributions immigrants make to American society? Labor economists will give you one answer; social historians will tell you something else. A taco crawl down 5th Avenue in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood, like the one I did last weekend, will give you yet another answer, one having something to do with chorizo, [...]
