My life the past two months can be summed up with 3 words: websites (Chesapeake Multicultural Resource Center, Simply Smashing Weddings & Events, and redesign of Line by Line web design), cats (Kosette was sick, then Snowcrash was sick, now Cinnamon and Kosette have a cold and I'm hoping they'll get better before I have to go back to the vet for ( Read more... )

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From allergies to arthritis to asthma, prednisone is prescribed for at least a dozen conditions that affect a lot of people. So it's concerning some pharmacists that nationwide drug companies are reporting shortages in the drug ( Read more... )

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Today Emily (see here for past entries), the cat who once was so feral I couldn't even get within 2 feet of her before she'd run away, actually came when I called her name. And on Monday, as I was walking around looking for her, she jumped up on the desk and very faintly meowed twice to get my attention. She then proceeded to rub against my hands ( Read more... )

Not sure if anyone else can relate to this, but here goes ( Read more... )

Having now read several books about the Armenian Genocide, I approach each book more as a chance to remember what I've already learned about the Genocide than to learn something new. But in the last book I read, I learned something that kicked me right in the gut: that American economic interests in the oil fields in Mosul, Iraq in the 1920s helped ( Read more... )

I turned 30 on Saturday and had a fantastic birthday ( Read more... )