Somehow I missed my “best, etc. of” post for 2021.
[Read more…]What I missed on my low-iodine diet
My stint with a low-iodine diet, in preparation for the radiated iodine therapy, was fine, though I really missed two things: ice cream and hot sauce. (Not at the same time….)
[Read more…]Hydration and isolation
Entering phase two: radioactive!
In “Good Luck and Cancer,” I wrote that my stint with cancer had lasted only three months from discovery to recovery. It turns out that this was a bit optimistic — though, I hope, not by much.
[Read more…]Thoughts on prayers
Good luck and cancer
Positively Ehrenreich: Bright-Sided (Part II-ish, since it’s more about me than the book…) [From the Archives]
The optimist, the joke goes, sees the glass of milk and says, “It’s half full.” The pessimist sees the glass of milk and says, “It’s half empty.”
The cynic sees the glass of milk and says, “It’s probably sour.”
[Read more…]Positively Ehrenreich: Bright-Sided (Part I, perhaps) [From the Archives]
When The Secret came out in 2006, I had already been dabbling in self-help lore. I was mainly interested in time management; my family and I had been through a lot of changes recently (moving, job changes, new kids), and I was trying to find strategies to make myself feel less overwhelmed. But since time management, at least in the many forms I found it, comes packaged with all the other self-help paraphernalia of goal setting and positive thinking, I had already come across variants of The Secret and its focus, the “scientific” Law of Attraction.
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