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The Eternity Artifact
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
L.E. Modesitt Jr. has been on my radar for a few years now, but I never got around to reading his books. This interview at the excellent Far Beyond Reality page finally jolted me into action, so I picked up one of the books the author himself recommends as a good SF starting point. I have to confess to a couple of concerns before I started reading, though they were generally settled by the interview. First, Modesitt is remarkably prolific, writing books at a pace that makes one suspect hackery. Second, his most popular work seems to be fantasy, which I read considerably less of than science fiction. Finally, he resides in Utah. I can say this as a long time former resident of the place, but I have grave doubts of anything worthwhile coming out of Utah, unless it somehow relates to Utah State University. Go Aggies.
However! My fears were rapidly dispelled. Modesitt may not be Tolstoy, but his craft is solid. Proportionately, he writes a lot of fantasy, some of which I plan to read sometime soon, but he slips comfortably into SF at will. He does indeed live in Utah, but it is in Cedar City (one of the few places I might tolerate) and is a transplant from Washington DC. All in all, I had nothing to fear. That said, when I was poking around the interwebs to refresh my memory on some plot points, I was surprised at the vehement reaction some reviewers had to The Eternity Artifact. Apparently Modesitt is a divisive writer, though I can't imagine why; being enraged over a Modesitt book seems about like being enraged over a Honda Accord.
Eternity is ostensibly a Big Mysterious Object story, as the protagonists race out into space to investigate an alien planetoid. The BMO is never really the point of the story though, as Modesitt uses it as a launching pad to explore subjects both macro and micro, with the actual secret of the BMO fading into the background somewhat by the end. The micro is supplied by his characters, four of which take turns in the first person. The narrative duties are split between a social science professor, a tug pilot, a famous painter, and a deep cover spy. The shifts in voice are jarring at first, but one soon gets used to each character's quirks. Modesitt uses the four to piece together the mystery, since each have their own perspectives and discoveries to share. The artist, for example, brings a completely different viewpoint to what is otherwise a standard SF yarn, while the professor allows for some more expansive world building.
The macro view is the backdrop through which the BMO moves. Modesitt has lifted a galactic society directly out of Huntington's Clash of Civilizations, complete with a Judeo-Christian empire, a Muslim empire, one each for China and Japan, and even an incarnation of the secular West. The BMO is interesting by itself, but what really grabs the author's (and characters') attention is the way each star-faring government reacts to it. Much conversation passes between the investigators about why one group or another would launch an attack, claim the technology for themselves, or suppress everything in the name of orthodoxy. This is interesting for me, but I'm sure that some readers would prefer more space battles, more riddle solving science, or crazier aliens.
More than anyone other author, Modesitt reminds me of Jack McDevitt. Their approaches are different, but both pay close attention to the way society moves around their protagonists and what shapes the decision made by each character. McDevitt tends to put his ethical questions directly into the story, making them a part of the narrative, while Modesitt spends more time having his characters talk over the societal issues rather than being a part of them. Modesitt is well-served by his time in DC, bringing an insider's view of the politics and economics of empire. Hard SF is generally limited to the physical sciences, and only recently to anything beyond astrophysics, but Eternity is Hard Soft SF, as it were, Hard SF for the social science masses. Swap out lengthy infodumps about stars, warp drives, and thermodynamics with political science, economics, and history, but leave the BMOs and space battles, and a Modesitt book emerges.
I can see why some readers might not go for this. I just happen to be part of a narrow demographic that loves Hard SF and Space Opera but has a graduate degree in political economy, so my tastes may be a bit rarefied. Still, this sort of attention to the underpinnings of world building is hardly unique to Modesitt, or offensive to large swathes of fandom; Daniel Abraham's books are just one example of popular SFF that spends as much time muttering about comparative advantage as wormholes or mystic runes. Still, even pulling out Modesitt's somewhat unconventional narrative structure and insistence on highlighting the squishier side of science, Eternity is a solid addition to the BMO canon. The mystery is suitably entertaining, the characters are given as much attention as the technology, and enough things blow up to warm my explosion-happy heart cockles. While I'm hardly a Modesitt veteran, I have to agree with his assessment that this is a good place to start with his books.
Rating: La Liga's Malaga. A Spanish side purchased by a member of the Qatari royal family, buying players from all over the world, competing in the Champion's League, and having financial trouble because said Qatari apparently doesn't feel like paying his players. Not that Eternity is this messy, but it's a good multicultural kerfluffle.


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Jeremy Woodward gets the okay to run in the upcoming Ironman competition from his cardiologist Dr. Carl Fier earlier this week at Eliot Hospital in Manchester. GEOFF FORESTER—Monitor staff
Jeremy Woodward was happy with the results after his doctor visit at the Eliot Hospital earlier this week. GEOFF FORESTER—Monitor staff
Dr. Carl Fier (left) studies images of Jeremy Woodward's heart at the Elliot Hospital in Manchester. GEOFF FORESTER / Monitor staff
Cardiologist Carl Fier checks Jeremy Woodward's pulse during a check up last week at Elliot Hospital in Manchester. GEOFF FORESTER / Monitor staff
Jeremy Woodward was a bit nervous during his medical exam until he got the good news at the end. GEOFF FORESTER—Monitor staff
Jeremy Woodward goes for a short ride along Fisk Road in Concord on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017. (ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staff) Elizabeth Frantz—Monitor staff
Jeremy Woodward goes for a short bike ride along Fisk Road in Concord on Thursday. Elizabeth Frantz / Monitor staff
The doctor studies the screen, looking at a grainy, pulsating blob that could pass for, well, a grainy, pulsating blob.
It's an undefined shape, hard to describe, with a regular rhythm, openings that close then re-open, and a restlessness that Jeremy Woodward hopes will carry him to the finish line next weekend in the Ironman Arizona, one of the most grueling athletic events on the planet.
The cardiologist at Elliot Hospital in Manchester, Carl Fier, is playful, answering Woodward's question – what's the doctor looking for on the echocardiogram that might prevent Woodward from competing – with this:
"If the heart is exploding, that's no good. Or if we see an alien inside."
The coast is clear. There's no explosion, and there's no sign of a little green man. Fier tells Woodward, "Everything is fine," meaning it's okay for him to swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles, then run 26.2 miles.
Woodward is relieved, beaming. "Great," he says. "Great."
Those numbers above are associated with this three-sport monster, and this event, on Nov. 19, will be the second Ironman for the 39-year-old Woodward, but his first in five years.
That's a miracle really, when you consider what happened to Woodward, who played basketball for Bishop Brady High School in the late 1990s.
In 2000, he received a tissue valve to replace his damaged aortic valve, something he was born with. A mechanical valve would have been better, stronger, but Woodward, then just 22, wanted to continue competing in full-contact karate.
"I did not want to be restricted," Woodward told me. "I felt invincible. I was 22. They told me the drawback was it could last 10 or 15 years. It lasted seven."
That's why Woodward almost died in 2007. He gained 30 pounds of fluid. He grew winded climbing stairs. He once had to stop a bike ride up a hill, had to get off and walk.
Who was this guy? Certainly not Woodward the fitness freak.
He spent six weeks in the hospital. Shortly after surgery, Woodward's early exercise routine included a lap around the hospital floor, accompanied by an IV walker, with its bags of fluid and winding tubes.
Woodward told me he nearly died when I met him in 2009, and that's what Fier told me when I met him last week, during Woodward's echocardiogram and EKG, the testing that would later clear him for Arizona.
Fier scanned Woodward's medical record, tapping on the mouse, the screen's light reflecting off his glasses. I asked him about Woodward's condition before he received that thumbnail-sized, mechanical valve 10 years ago to replace the failed tissue valve.
Fier smiled. Then he forced a subtle laugh, the kind you create when you're not really laughing.
"When he went in for the re-operation he was pretty close to death," Fier said.
Today, Woodward's boot camp business does well, with about 100 of his own clients and a few instructors to whom he rents space. At the time of his surgery, though, Woodward's business was brand new, a cruel irony not lost on him. Knowing full well he might not leave the hospital alive, he says he told his wife, Brook, "If I get out of here I want to do an Ironman, and I got obsessed with this.
"Knowing my body went through hell and knowing the body is amazing the way it could respond made it about pushing limits and what limits could be pushed," said Woodward, who works to recognize his own limits. "I have to keep my heart rate down. I could give two s---- about time. I feel lucky."
He competed in the Lake Placid Ironman in 2010, but the script was re-written after that. There was the script in life, the one that said Woodward was back, good as ever, and the one from a movie called Heart: Flatline to Finish Line, which was released last year.
The movie script would tell the story of eight athletes, each of whom had suffered heart issues ranging from perforated arteries to valve replacements. Their training would be documented leading up to the 2012 Ironman Arizona. Their lives would be inspirational, a tribute to the human spirit.
Woodward was part of the cast. So was a man named Scott Roy of Spokane, Wash., who also had had a valve replacement procedure.
Roy died after a long bike ride, during the early stages of production. Later, Woodward, who had grown close to Roy, was told he couldn't compete in Arizona because doctors had detected a slight change in his aorta.
The filmmaker was Dave Watkins of Seattle, whose heart once stopped for five minutes before he set Ironman goals himself. He was at that appointment when Woodward learned he would not be competing in Arizona.
"I don't know if he fully grasped right away the idea that this was not a good idea," Watkins said by phone. "But it didn't take him long to accept it. As soon as he got home and saw his wife and kids, I saw the spark in his eyes and he knew this was not the right time and he would live to race another day."
Fast forward, to now. Regular annual checkups have gone well the past five years, so recently Woodward began to get the Ironman itch once again.
"I wanted to finish what I started," he told me.
Woodward called me, asking if I'd like to ride down with him to Elliot Hospital to watch testing. If he passed, if his doctor gave him the green light to compete in Arizona, I'd be there to record the joy.
If not, I'd be there to document that reaction, as well.
Brook, of course, had insisted Woodward get cleared for the race, something he sort of nudged into the background, wondering if he could handle the truth.
One day, before a long bike ride, Brook sarcastically asked her husband, "How did that appointment go?"
"I left on the bike frustrated. I didn't want to hear that I can't go (to Arizona). I had worked hard," said Woodward, who made an appointment with Fier 15 miles into the ride, then texted Brook to tell her.
Woodward is forever balancing his thirst to compete with his wife and their three daughters, one of whom is seven months old. He wants to compete. He wants to be a loving family man for many years.
He wants both.
We meet before 8 a.m., at Woodward's fitness center for the half-hour drive, and it's not surprising to learn that Woodward doesn't drink coffee. He's nervous, telling me, "I'm sort of dreading going for this."
We park in the hospital garage, move across a long catwalk, through an automatic-opening pair of double doors and into the lobby, where Woodward checks in and catches the staff off guard by announcing a writer and photographer would like to join him for his echocardiogram and EKG.
We're met by Susanna Fier, the vice president of public affairs and marketing who happens to be the wife of Dr. Fier. While she seeks clearance for us, Woodward remembers his 2007 post surgery days, when he'd hug a pillow tight to his stitched-up chest while sneezing to minimize unbearable pain.
"I thought my chest was going to explode," he says.
We get the green light and move to Testing Room 1, where Woodward lies on his left side while Matt Lower, a cardiac sonographer, dabs some conductive gel onto the tip of a probe and begins touching Woodward's chest.
That creates the pulsating blob on the screen, the one Fier studies while joking with Woodward, his patient for 10 years. He's checking on the valve and looking at the chambers.
"How are the kids?"
"Got a new one."
"Another girl?"
With beeps beeping and a jagged line moving across the screen, Woodward asks, "How's it look, Dr. Fier?"
"Beautiful," Fier replies.
Later comes the EKG, which checks the heart's electrical activity. Mary Ann, a nurse who declines to give her last name, attaches 12 electrodes to Woodward, who's reclining in a chair that looks part airplane seat, part rocket ship seat.
"Obviously I will adhere to what he says," Woodward tells me, anticipating Fier's appearance. "But to work this hard and be told that I shouldn't do Arizona..."
His voice trails off. His final long bike ride before the Ironman, 80 miles, is scheduled for the next day.
If Fier says he's good to go, that is.
The door creeks open at 9:18 a.m. and in walks Fier, with a stethoscope draped around his shoulders like a scarf. He's grilling Woodward in a friendly manner, about how he's feeling, what sort of exercise he's doing, is he experiencing shortness of breath, any heart palpations.
Fier is clicking the mouse, looking at the EKG results and Woodward's recent history. He places his stethoscope onto Woodward's back and asks him to breathe deeply.
Then he says, "Everything is looking good. Keep doing what you're doing."
Woodward, still unsure, wants more. "And Arizona?" he asks.
"Yes that's fine," Fier says, adding to me, "Not only does he have a normal heart, but he has a super-normal heart based on the workouts he's doing."
We leave. Woodward is beaming and tells me Brook has already texted a few times, seeking results even prior to Woodward's 8:30 a.m. appointment.
He clips his cell phone to the dash and calls Brook. "We are good to go," he tells her.
"You're good to go?" Brook responds.
"The doctor said I'm super-normal."
I confirm that fact to her, then ask Brook if she's happy. She laughs a nervous laugh and says, "Yes, I'm happy because I know he wants to do it."
After the call ends, I ask Woodward if my hunch is right, that Brook would rather he not push himself in this manner.
"You're 100 percent right," he tells me.
So, later, I call Brook, wondering how right I was. Maybe she'd sugarcoat it. How far would she search inside to reach for what must be a hard truth? She searches far.
"I am happy Jeremy not only got clearance from his doctor to compete, but very happy that there has been no change to the condition of his heart," Brook writes in an email. "I am the worrier, I think of everything that could go wrong during the race. I know how much competing in this race means to him, but I will definitely be on edge until he crosses the finish line."
She said she'll be there with their three daughters, ringing cowbells, holding signs.
Woodward's training is nearly finished. We pull into the parking lot, at Woodward's gym on Manchester Street.
"Now I'm pumped," Woodward says. "Now we go to Arizona. We'll do it and see what the day brings."
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The lust of hate / by Guy Boothby.
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The Lust of Hate is the third of Guy Boothby's novels about the mysterious Dr Nikola, an occultist anti-hero seeking immortality and world domination.In this the third of Boothby's Dr. Nikola novels, Nikola applies his almost hypnotic persuasion to convince an out-of-luck Australian, formerly from England, named Gilbert Pennethorne to assist Nikola unwittingly in an evil scheme.Nikola takes advantage of Pennethorne's intense desire for revenge against a former boss in Australia who stole information about the location of a gold field that would have made Pennethorne immensely wealthy. Using that information, the boss made himself rich, living a high life in London, while Pennethorne remained penniless.Nikola contrives a plan and a device for Pennethorne to commit the perfect murder of the wealthy thief. Unknowingly, Pennethorne thus becomes a party to another one of Nikola's insidious schemes.The Lust of Hate was first published in 1898. Unabridged full version. Reading by Peter John Keeble, running time: 7 hours, 15 min. Also available as e-book (ePUB).Guy Newell Boothby (1867–1905) was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. He lived mainly in England. He is best known for such works as the Dr Nikola series, about an occultist criminal mastermind who is a Victorian forerunner to Fu Manchu, and Pharos, the Egyptian, a tale of Gothic Egypt, mummies' curses and supernatural revenge. [Elib]


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After twenty years studying, discussing, analyzing, and changing organizations I had a revelation. No, not a revelation, it was more a revelACTION how I call them when I coach top managers. A revelACTION is an ex-post sense making of some facets of a situation or a part of one's life that opens up a completely different perspective, and infuses with a novel meaning all we have been struggling to accomplish. Yes, you could call it simply revelation, but to me it originates new actions, and a deeper comprehension of one's travel on Earth. Then, it is a kind of action. And it is a kind of action of a particularly valuable kind, because it allows you as an individual to realize that you are not a sequence of actions commanded by the everyday routine, neither are you but a cognitive set of stimulus-reaction behaviors. You are a human being, with cognition, values, and beliefs that come to be suspended if not suppressed by the overly institutionalized character of everyday life on this planet. And then your magic revelACTION kicks in and everything gets into its place. You realize that either unconsciously or through an incomplete plan you were after something, relevant and unique to your journey.
My revelACTION is freedom. I never realized it, but I have been obsessed by a constant search for a way to liberate people I met in organizations. I have felt the pain of all the burden they brought along with them. It could be a class of learners who struggled to accept the irrationality of their organization, which was imposed on them through silly procedures. I saw it in the eyes of successful managers who were kept in chain by all the expectations that had arisen around them. Their eyes told the story of so many moments of life lost in the pursuit of a role tailored around them, but too narrow to be their life. and then what about the pain of some of my students, brilliant and ambitious who came back to talk with me of their experiences in their new workplaces. So much sorrow, all coming out of the lack of freedom in and around organizations.
But all these emotions surfaced when I asked myself what I would like to write in the first book that is just a search for a new message to change organizations, and I had my revelACTION. I am taking freedom as the foundation of a different way of interpreting organizations. I went through all the prophets of freedom, like Von Hayek, and many philosophers of the past, and I am trying to describe how we can make our institutions (and our world?) a place for freedom.
Because we cannot ask for freedom only in the global markets, we have to pursue it into any single act of our life. So, if you are reading this note, and think you might have an idea or an example to share, I welcome them. They'll be part of my forthcoming book for Gower Ashgate.
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There may a new, simpler and safer option for getting vitamin D right in the produce aisle. Get this: Munching on mushrooms containing vitamin D2 may increase and maintain vitamin D levels as effectively as supplements (of vitamin D2 or vitamin D3) according to new research from the Boston University School of Medicine.
When 30 healthy adults took capsules with 2,000 International Units (IU) of vitamin D2, 2,000 IU of vitamin D3, or 2,000 IU of mushroom powder containing vitamin D2 once daily for three months, researchers found that all three methods increased levels of serum 25(OH)D levels. After 12 weeks, none of the groups had significantly different levels.
"Ingesting mushrooms which have been exposed to ultraviolet light and contain vitamin D2 are a good source of vitamin D that can improve the vitamin D status of healthy adults," said lead researcher on the abstract, Michael Holick, PhD, MD, in a statement. "We found ingesting mushrooms containing vitamin D2 as effective in raising and maintaining a healthy adult's vitamin D status as ingesting a supplement containing either vitamin D2 or vitamin D3."
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Last spring, Edline sent a notification about my stepkid's Biology grade. For those not familiar with Edline, it's utilized by schools to host their internal websites, student records and staff contact information. Emails from Edline come in every few days — primarily with updates on grades so that parents can track a child's progress over the course of the school year. It feels sometimes like an unwelcome shove into hovering parent mode. Other times it's a useful tool — like when my husband, Michael, and I were virtually informed that his son hadn't turned in his Biology homework for a month.
"Looks like you haven't turned in your Biology homework for a month?" I said.
"Ayuhuh." (Translation: Ayah, sometimes pronounced "Mmnnm.")
"So, you haven't turned in your Biology homework for a month?"
"I guess."
"What's up with that?"
"Mmnnm." (Translation: I don't know)
When someone answers "I don't know," but does, but isn't in the mood to talk, or to deal with the issue at hand, I get ... testy. Throw me a bone, already.
("I don't know," of course, can be a powerful, liberating statement — for 16 year olds and everyone else — a demonstration of humility, and the confidence to display a lack of knowledge alongside the desire to acquire it. As a lifelong know-it-all — even/especially when I didn't — this has been a revelation in the past few years. I actually kind of get off on it. Just yesterday, my manager in my new-ish role at work referred to the Something or Other Special Report. "I don't know what that is," I said. I swear I had a little dopamine pleasure surge. When I catch myself opining on something I know absolutely nothing about, I will cut myself off, with a motto adopted from an old colleague [who, in fact, knew more than a little about almost everything]: "Often wrong, never in doubt!")
"Can we talk about this in 15 minutes (or tomorrow, or never)?" would be a fine response. And is rarely the response I get, despite years of modeling, suggesting, and asking for this. So, I get the opportunity to remind myself that the brain of a 16-year-old boy looks something like this:
And, since I know that neither polite inquiry nor relentless nagging can be processed by said brain, I employed a new tactic:
"Since the only thing I've liked less in my life than nagging you about your homework was doing homework, can we bypass the bullshit here?"
Lip twitch (Translation: smile)
"Why aren't you doing it?"
"I forgot."
"Huh. As far as I can tell, you have an excellent memory. Do you mean 'Homework is stupid busywork and I'd rather stab myself in the eye than do it after sitting in school all day and then kicking ass at wrestling practice for three hours'?"
"Yeah, something like that."
That right there? That was big for us! Because somewhere along the parenting line, step- or otherwise, I'd forgotten that basically all a kid needs (besides housing and benzoyl peroxide) is to be heard, and to be understood. Or, for there to be a willingness to understand, so they will hopefully talk, and thereby be heard.
Most often what they need is for adults to shut the heck up. My go-to in this department is Vicki Hoefle of Parenting On Track, and the author of Duct-Tape Parenting. Some of her suggestions are too radical for me — not that I doubt they'd work; I'm just not evolved enough to employ them — but the basic premise that 1) training one's kids for self-sufficiency from Day One and 2) putting in the time and mindfulness for a fun and trusting relationship naturally result in cooperation, familial connection and respect. Managing, micronagging, and keeping under surveillance, on the other hand, don't exactly engender an open and communicative relationship. Hoefle asserts that when there are problems with kids, they're either due to breakdowns of relationships or lack of training.
(The duct tape is for us, not them)
I suspect this homework thing is a training issue, despite the hours and evenings logged over the years. He knows how to do his homework, but does he know when and where to do it, aside from while cross-eyed tired at night, or during a 45-minute study hall? And, do we really know if he knows how to do it? He was an honors student until two years ago, then had a slight-but-not-red-flag-raising dip in his grades that could be chalked up to the difference in academic challenge — and hormonal distractions, and heavier sports schedules — from middle to high school. He had always brought home report cards with smiley-face-accented comments written in the margins, and we were lax about checking his homework or appraising his time management methods, because it seemed that whatever he was doing was working for him, until it didn't, in the form of Cs and Ds.
Also, he came to live with us when he was 9, and while I was the grown-up most game to do so — his dad has a PTSD response to math worksheets and the smell of chalk, having been sufficiently shamed by the nuns for what was likely dyslexia — I didn't feel comfortable, at all, jumping into classroom-parent mode. His mom was suddenly, temporarily out of the picture, our living arrangement a few months' out was a big unknown, and my aim was to covertly do the parenting stuff necessary while maintaining lady-friend-who-happens-to-live-with-your-dad status.
My involvement with his education prior to that was one incident, the weekend before he entered fourth grade. I asked if he had summer reading. I was working at a magazine for K-8 educators at the time, so I had elementary school curricula on the brain. Plus, we'd tentatively connected by reading together the four nights a month he spent at his father's. I was hyperconscious of not treading into the mom realm, but as they didn't have a read-aloud routine, I felt comfortable bringing on the kid lit, with a wall of review copies at work to choose from. He had never gotten his summer reading book. As we drove to the library, I had to chew my cheek to prevent uncharitable thoughts from slipping out in spoken form, and to remind myself that it was unfair to judge someone else's oversights when I only had one life, my own, to keep track of at that point. He picked out Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar, and applied for his first library card. It was my first experience feeling parent-y with him. It was thrilling, and complicated. It would get way more complicated, then necessary, then easier, but never easy, to determine when I needed to parent, and when I needed to leave it to the people on his birth certificate.
I wish I'd owned the academic arena with him more, and sooner. It's clearer cut now. He'll be the first in his family to go to college, and I'm the de facto docent on that journey. Come to think of it, while both my parents have their BAs and beyond, my stepmother brought me to visit a college campus or two, and she was the one who suggested I just might love my now-alma mater, a school I never thought I'd get into, never mind be able to afford (the higher the ivy, the deeper the pockets, as it turned out).
So, homework: "I get it," I said. "The problem is that it affects your grade, and grades affect your grade point average, and colleges care about those things. So, if you want to have more choices about where you go to college, you have to do your homework." As I said all of this, I felt deeply tired, and wanted to pack up all our crap, buy one of those little trailer campers, head to South America and call it home schooling, which Michael and I have seriously contemplated, if only the other parent in the picture would go along with it (not literally, since those campers comfortably sleep about one petite person and a napping cat, and she has myriad small children and a Winnebago-sized personality).
Then I had a radical and unthinkable thought. What if he's a morning person, but doesn't know it? I realized about a year ago, only out of a desperate attempt to find quiet, uninterrupted time in my day, that I work better early in the day than late at night. Really early, like 5 a.m. Maybe it's a new development borne of being forced awake by small people around the hour I used to go to bed in the old days. Or maybe it's always been the case, and unfortunately I didn't know it in high school or college, or in all my years as a freelancer.
Indeed, he didn't look impressed with my theory. I said I'd wake him up, and would make him breakfast,* if he was willing to try it for a week. Since his bus comes at the obscene time of 7:07 a.m., this meant 5 or 5:30 a.m.
This is rather counterintuitive, considering teens' night-owl circadian rhythms. Which was clearly not considered by whatever geniuses in education decided it made sense for those humans most biologically prone to staying up til midnight to start their academic day while it's still dark out four months of the year. Our kindergartner is up, dressed and ready to party on the playground by 6:30 a.m., and her school day doesn't begin til 8:55. This schedule had to have been built around bus/traffic logistics, or to accommodate high school athletics — because field hockey is critical to academic competitiveness for the 21st century, and football is a viable career path.
Anyway, he agreed. (!?) It wasn't a fix-all, but he did most of his homework for the rest of the year. His grades did go up, and he consistently ate breakfast for a change (which no doubt helped, as well).
So, here we are, at the beginning of 11th grade — the PSAT this fall, the SAT and ACT in the spring, college visits, the make-or-break year for hiking up that GPA. At this point, a few weeks in, he's entirely unwilling to get up before 28 minutes before his bus.** Edline is now Infinite Campus — an even more Big Parent-like name. I have resisted checking his grades online so far. His dad and I recently asked how it's going, and are told, "All right, I guess," which could mean he's in the front row with his No. 2 pencil and graphing calculator, or sitting behind the tall kid, texting under his textbook. But he wants to, and expects to, go to college. He said, "I averaged my GPA in with the possible best grades I can get, and I don't think I can get it to a 3.5." (Translation: I'm concerned. I'm disappointed. I might go into "I don't give a fuck, self-protection mode" in about 30 seconds if you don't say something hopeful.) I opened my mouth and urged something smart to come out. "That's good, to know what you're working with. Colleges look for improvement, though, and give a lot of weight to test scores and application essays, too. What can you do to be certain about that GPA average?" He said he'd check with his guidance counselor. I pulled up a U.S. News and World Report article, optimistically titled "A+ Schools for B Students." I watched his face loosen up a bit. Hope, restored. What I didn't say at this juncture is that community colleges are an excellent starter option, and may end up being the most strategic way to afford his higher education. Part of parenting is holding high expectations for your kids, so they can think big, but how to do that without Big Parenting? There should be a night course on the subject. Or an early-morning one.
*Another Vicki Hoefle gem is that our job and responsibility as parents is to train up, relate closely to, and back off from our kids, so they can sail out the door at 18, confident, self-sufficient, and able to cook their own dinner — and will want to come back for visits, versus feeling compelled to flee our familial clutches and be basically MIA for the next decade. While we neglected to spot the time-management issue for a while there, the stepkid has done his laundry since he was 10, puts his lunch together if he wants to brown bag it, and theoretically knows how to make a bed. And he certainly can boil up a bowl of oatmeal. But I know I certainly appreciate having breakfast made for me sometimes. There's an importance balance between fostering independence, and easing another's burden because that's just a nice thing to do, and to teach, in a family.
**Breaking news: At 6:50 this morning, he asked for a ride. His Algebra teacher offers extra help before school, running through practice questions on test/quiz days. Just now he texted us that he got a 98.8%. (After a futile attempt to ban electronic devices, his school has an amorphous policy where students can use them — to listen to music or to look something up online — or not, at each teacher's discretion. He had to leave his at home for most of last year after being caught texting when not allowed — in Biology).


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You don't need to be bombarded with a great deal of statistics or crime reports to know that the elderly are targeted by fraudsters. There will be plenty of facts and figures that will back up this notion but you only have to get into the mind-set of a criminal to understand why targeting the elderly makes more sense.
There is a good chance that the elderly will have access to a lot of savings. It may well be that the elderly do not have anyone else around them, which means that they can be befriended while also not having anyone else to speak to or gain advice from. There is also a lot to be said for the fact that the elderly are vulnerable. This means that they are more susceptible to con stories and they may be keen to do more to minimise any disruption or hassle to their life.
This means that many fraudsters and con-artists will focus on the elderly when it comes to making their money, and it is why there needs to be a great deal of support handed out to the elderly. It would be good if there were better plans and structure in place to prevent these crimes from taking place, but that may be difficult to hear. There is definitely a big call for the punishments handed out to people who undertake these crimes to be bigger though. If a crime is suitably punished, it can only be hoped that there will be enough of a deterrent against people, which will provide the level of protection that the elderly need and deserve.
The Court heard how the Elderly were Targeted
A case held at Exeter Crown Court recently has focused on two brothers who systematically focused on the elderly and vulnerable. The plan of action was to get the elderly to invest in bogus firms and they managed to con close to £560,000 from eight elderly people. One of the ways in which they carried out this fraudulent activity was to make links to the Lord's Cricket Ground. This is the sort of thing that can make the elderly feel as though a project is worth investing in. The name of Lord's is one that is well known and respected and sadly, too many elderly people will take this information at face value and assume that it is all true. This creates the platform where the elderly are more than happy to invest in a bogus investment firm, which means that the con-artists have a simple task.
The court heard how the money was siphoned off with a considerable amount of money being spent on high value cars. It was told that a Range Rover and a Porsche Boxer were amongst the cars snapped up by the fraudsters.
The Fraudsters claimed to have a Contract with Lord's
Lee and Mark Chapman were the brothers who were found guilty of a number of fraudulent acts, although Lee was acquitted on 4 charges. Their company, SPS, claimed that they had contracts in place to sell Lord's branded products. The products said to be on offer were sun cream, gin and whisky and the brothers claimed that they held contracts to sell these products to leading supermarket chains. Again, the use of well-known names and semi-plausible situations means that the elderly would have listened with intent and would have felt that this was a genuine opportunity for them to make some money by making a sensible investment.
As part of their fraudulent activity, a newsletter was created which talked about having international contracts in place and a £6m turnover. The activity took place between January of 2007 and August of 2012. While one other man, Marc Payne, was cleared of the five fraud charges he faced, the sentencing for the brothers will take place after probation reports have been received.
There will no doubt be a great deal of interest in the punishment handed out to the men, and people will be looking for a serious punishment to send out a serious message. This is where the defence solicitor representing the brothers needs to be strong and focus on the facts of the matter. In this instance, the work of a defence solicitor is to properly represent the clients and provide them with the fairest of punishment.
Andrew Reilly is a freelance writer with a focus on news stories and consumer interest articles. He has been writing professionally for 9 years but has been writing for as long as he can care to remember. When Andrew isn't sat behind a laptop or researching a story, he will be found watching a gig or a game of football.


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By Rosemarie Gonzalez
Ever get caught up in the comparison game? comparing cloths, home, cars, jobs, money, Social media followers etc... Many people get caught up in this trap because we live in a world that measures our success in life by what we have. We have always been compared to others. Even at the young school age our academics are measured by others achievements within our age and grade group. This comparisons game creates what is called the Social Comparison Theory in which our own social and personal self worth is determined by comparing ourselves to others. This can become dangerous to ones
mental health as it can cause envy, low self-confidence, and depression. All that wreaks havoc on our mental health which can eventually effect total body health.
Success can't be measured by what other can and are doing because we are all different. It's like comparing apples to oranges. It has to be measured by our own capabilities as we all have different unique journeys in life and we must embrace the path we are on, always striving to be better than we were the day before. We should not concern ourselves with what others are doing for they are on their own journey.
This understanding enables us to let go of the baggage we hold on our backs, weighing us down as we no longer have to live up to the standards based on others journeys. And once we let go, only then can we go full speed ahead on the path that was created specifically for us, creating a more healthy mind and body.
" But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For every man shall bear his own burden."Galatians 6:4-5 (KJV)
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Surface Hub 2 comes with a new signature feature: the ability to link up to four screens together. The device, Microsoft said, is emblematic of the modern workplace, where people are more mobile and spread out and companies need better ways to communicate and collaborate.
"There is a need for a device built for teams and designed for these new environments," Microsoft's Chief Product Officer Panos Panay wrote in a blog post. "To help people collaborate whether they are in the office, at home, or traveling the world. To move beyond just passing along information, to a world where they are collaborating real-time, in an efficient, and intuitive way."
Microsoft said it sold more than 5,000 of the original Surface Hub devices to customers in 25 markets, including half of Fortune 100 companies. The original Surface, which came in 55 and 84-inch models, cost anywhere from $9,000 to $22,000. Robin Seiler, the general manager of Surface Hub engineering, told Business Insider the price of the new Surface Hub will be comparable in cost with the competing digital whiteboard offerings from Google and Cisco, which could mean a price of about $5,000.
Last year, Microsoft shut down the Wilsonville, Ore. plant 30 miles south of Portland, where it manufactured the device. Original Surface Hub devices aren't available through Microsoft's online store, although you can find them at resellers.
The screens will be 50.5 inches and Microsoft promises a resolution greater than 4K. In addition to the ability to combine multiple Surface Hub 2 devices together into one giant screen, the new device is also more flexible than its predecessor, with options for vertical and horizontal orientation. Microsoft is also teaming with Michigan-based office furniture company Steelcase to make rolling stands and wall mounts for the devices.
Microsoft says the device will be available for purchase next year. In the meantime the company will begin testing the device with select commercial customers.


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A little background on The Experiment
A naive, and very young 19 year old, this was my first trip to Europe. When our flight was rerouted to Liege due to an airline strike, Lori and I found each other.... and our love for Europe!
Yes, we sat on a sidewalk eating fresh bread and drinking wine (probably out of the bottle).
After 3 weeks of intensive language instruction in Copenhagen, we ventured to Askov where we took classes and mingled with Danish students.
|Askov is about 54 km due east of Esbjerg. (in the center of the peninsula)
I met Peter, probably at one of the late night beer socials, and it didn't take me long to fall madly in love. From Askov, I went to Odense to live with my Danish family, and then had several weeks to work on my independent study. I spent as much time as I could with Peter.
|Peter and me in Askov. A little grainy; before the days of digital cameras!
Our plan was for Peter to come to the United States while I finished my college career. Of course, we would live happily ever after!!!
Plans have a way of falling apart. After living with me in Natick, moving to Lori's apartment in Boston, then moving to Keene, Peter returned to Denmark.
Life went on. I graduated from college, moved to the North Shore, got married a few years later, had two children, divorced, and moved again. At this point I was nearing retirement.
As I was checking my email at school one day, I was very surprised to see something from a "Peter Langdal". I only knew one, and that had been 40 (yes, 40) years ago. He asked if I had studied in Denmark in the 70s, and remembered a "Peter Langdal". Of course I did! We emailed back and forth, he asked about Lori, and we shared stories of the past years. Through Peter, I reconnected with Lori.
Over the next few years, we sporadically updated each other. Peter has two daughters he seems very close to, and a wonderful wife. Unfortunately, Annie (his wife)succumbed to cancer a few years ago. Lori has two children, her son living in Europe, and her daughter in NYC. Her partner, Kenneth, is a successful artist.
In February (the depths of winter), I discovered an amazingly low fare (on Norwegian) to Copenhagen. Peter and I had discussed visiting each other, and this was too good to pass up. After being assured my visit would be welcome, I booked an extended stay in September. I don't know about Peter, but I certainly went back in forth about the prudence of this decision!
Meanwhile, Peter booked a flight to NYC to stay with Lori in July. Realizing it might be good to see each other before spending 16 days together, I found a $5 MegaBus trip! Although there were more than butterflies rolling around in my stomach while I waited for Peter to arrive, it took no more than 10 minutes to pick up our friendships where we had left off.
My stay in NYC was far too short, but in just a few days......


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The very first horror flicks were the silent short films of the late 19th
and early 20th centuries the first was Le Manoir du Diable, a two minute
long vampire film released in 1896. Chock full of demons and other dastardly
characters, these original scary movies attracted audiences in droves and
led to the eventual development of today's horror film genre.
Why do People Need to be Scared?
Our relatively easy modern lives have eliminated many of the fear-generating
challenges that our ancestors faced on a regular basis. Most of us have safe
places to live and make our way through everyday life without having to worry
about getting home alive. As a result, we need to manufacture opportunities
(i.e. scary movies and roller coasters) to experience extreme levels of anxiety
and fear and then gain control of those feelings. We allow ourselves to be
challenged within a controlled environment and survive.
The Psychological Scare
Some horror film aficionados believe that a truly scary movie shows very little
gore and very few shots of the bad guy. Instead, the mood is set with the
appropriate music and lighting and audience is given just enough information
to create the worst possible scenarios all on their own. Of course, the imagination
can come up with horrors that no director or scriptwriter ever could. Examples
of psychologically scary movies are Psycho (1960), The Haunting (1963), Rosemary's
Baby (1968), The Exorcist (1973), Jaws (1975) and Alien (1979).
The Gore-Filled Scare
For some moviegoers, blood and gore make scary movies worth seeing. They want
their villains visible and slashing. They want their victims screaming and
bleeding. Some classic examples of this type of scary movie are: Night of
the Living Dead (1968), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Halloween (1978),
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Hellraiser (1987), Silence of the Lambs
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By Thomas Connelly
In my utopia, art would be intimate. Art would compel people to think. Art would take place in interesting venues. The Green Room gave me a taste of my utopian dreams.
In this work, The Green Room, Jane Longhurst and Dylan Sheridan were able to create something challenging and invigorating. They have made the overture to an endless and communal symphony, that each of us can carry and add to daily.
On a sunny first day of summer I drove to a much ignored historical part of Hobart, the Victoria Gunpowder Magazine on the Queens Domain.
I arrive early, and entertain myself with a stroll along Soldiers Memorial Avenue. A bleak and silently beautiful memorial to those sacrificed in the Great War . Alone but for the wind on my face and the song of the birds, this quiet futility of war moment places me in the right frame of mind for the Green Room .
The audience is led to an intimate dance floor . A woman is dressed in black:. is she a servant or a mourner? As she endlessly sweeps the floor with her old fashioned broom, Dylan Sheridan's modulated rumblings signal a dreamy twilight entrance and a beginning. A theatre of gesture and sound follows, filling the abandoned space and transmuting the audience. Minimal lighting adds a thrilling unity.
Years ago punks prided themselves on breaking the distance between performer and audience. The Green Room extends this idea. The audience becomes the performance. The rustling of clothing - the string section, shifting feet - percussion, breathing - woodwind. Peristaltic motion forms the brass section, breaks down barriers, and at the same time raises questions and the audience becomes part of the performance. What is meant to be heard? What is performance? What is real?
Jane Longhurst performs a silent dance; her movements layering questions and her very being becomes ambiguous. A ghost of the long empty gunpowder magazine? An echo of the forgotten Crimean War? The fear of Tsarist expansion? The endless domestic labour of women? Or is her sweeping structure for the soundscape?
The performance doesn't end, rather it fades and changes location. Walking away from the keyboard, doors open and the audience slowly melts away, a simulated ending. Once everyone has left the room Jane finishes her sweeping and her dance. And we are outside in the light and the real world. Off in the distance a band plays, birds sing, conversation flows. The performance continues without end.
In all this was a fabulous production; a subtle and revolutionary work. Simple and complex, artless and polished, all at once. Equal parts theatre, dance, installation and composition. All bundled up with questioning strings, in a appropriate and interesting venue. A venue that not only allows intimacy, but forces intimacy upon the audience and performers alike.
Congratulations to the Salamanca Arts Centre's HyPe (Hybrid Performance) Program for nurturing innovation and allowing this and many other vigorous performances to be created in and around the local area.


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Manchester, Vt. – Senior tri-captain Will Rosenfield (Baltimore, Md.) finished second with a round of 71 to lead the Trinity College Bantams to the 2018 Ekwanok Men's Golf College Tournament at Equanok Country Club this afternoon. Trinity's top six scorers of eight golfers on the course combined for a team score of 447 to put the Bantams 10 strokes ahead of Middlebury in the team scoring. As the winner of the annual tournament featuring Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, and Williams, the Bantams earn the Sap Bucket for the second time in the five-year history of the event.
Rosenfield ended up three strokes behind Williams' Beau David for individual medalist honors, followed by sophomore Ricardo Paes Leme (Lake Villa, Ill.) in a tie for fourth at 73. Bantam senior tri-captain Jack Junge (Lincolnshire, Ill.) tied for sixth at 74, classmate Joseph Ladd (San Francisco, Calif.) tied for eighth at 75, and junior Cameron Chottiner (Houston, Texas) tied for 10th at 76 to give Trinity five players among the top ten. Trinity closes the fall campaign this weekend at the Saratoga National Golf Club Invitational in New York.


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National campaign group Stonewall has ranked Derbyshire County Council as one of the best places to work for lesbian, gay and bisexual employees.
The council features in this year's 'Top 100 Employers' list ranking 74 out of 376 public and private sector entrants.
And Derbyshire, which employs 36,000 staff, is ranked as the fourth best county council employer and one of only 18 local authorities to make the list this year.
Derbyshire County Council chief executive Nick Hodgson said: "We're proud to be recognised by Stonewall as one of the UK's leading employers for lesbian, gay and bisexual employees.
"We believe we've made significant progress in creating a working environment where colleagues can feel comfortable about being open about their sexual orientation if they choose and where our diversity can improve the services we provide.
"It's a tremendous achievement and this national recognition demonstrates how we value our employees and are committed to being an excellent employer."
Stonewall works with employers to promote equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual employees and publishes an employers' performance index every year.
It measures how successful organisations are in providing confidence, support and security for lesbian, gay and bisexual employees to be open about their sexuality at work.
This is done by assessing employers across eight areas of good practice including training and development, monitoring, employee policies and how they work with their lesbian, gay and bisexual community.
The county council will continue as a Stonewall Diversity Champion this year – a programme designed to support organisations that are committed to improving as an employer. It offers one-to-one support, performance monitoring and opportunities to share good practice with successful high-profile employers.
Mr Hodgson added: "We're always committed to improving further and are pleased to continue as a Stonewall Diversity Champion to support our work to build on this year's success."
The county council supports and promotes its own LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) Workers' Group and is holding an event to mark LGBT History Month at County Hall in Matlock on Friday 8 February.


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Match preview: Liverpool Ladies face WSL 1 league leaders Chelsea
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After winning their opening fixture of 2017-18 against Everton, Scott Rogers' charges suffered defeat last Friday when they lost 3-0 to Reading FC Women.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
She Swallowed WHAT????
Was yesterday MONDAY? Nope, Wednesday. Woke up to ice and snow everywhere. It was the perfect day to hang out in jammies with plenty of hot coffee but instead I was scheduled for a ROOT CANAL at my dentist.
Now I've already told ya'll how much I hate going to the dentist. Maybe it's the idea of someone messing with my mouth or the fact I don't deaden worth a flip but this is something I put off as a rule.So I got up and slipped and slided across town to make my dental appointment figuring I'd be out of commission most of the day because of what my dentist had planned for me. When I got there, he said there wouldn't be a root canal, they were just going to discuss things and schedule the work on Monday. I'm actually thinking a phone call to discuss things might've been a good idea.
Anyway, since I was there they sent me to the hygenist for teeth cleaning. Didn't want to waste the trip across town in the ice and snow so okay.Everything went fine. The hygenist with fun to talk with and had a great personality. She said...do you floss these back teeth? I said...no, they are too tight and the floss tears to pieces. To this she said...I can do it. She started on the back teeth with the floss then goes...uh oh, oh nooooo. Don't SWALLOW! So what do I do? I SWALLOW. A crown on a far back tooth popped off and went right down my throat. OMG! I struggled up from the chair as the hygenist tried the hymlich maneuver. Did I misspell that? HYMLICH? I don't know. Anyway, there was that and back slapping but the damn thing was GONE. My dentist rushed in to check things out. He said this has only happened to him a couple of times. Lucky me. LOL.
I HAD to laugh. The whole morning had been one mishap after another.I finally pointed at him and said...This is why I don't like to come to see you! Of course, he knows my fear of all things dental and had to laugh too.
26 comments:
- Kelley Nyrae said...
Going to the dentis is SO scary. I hate to go. I had a really mean dentist as a child how put his hand over my mouth when I was crying and held my face telling me there would be none of that in his office. It was so tramatic for me.
- January 29, 2009 at 12:44 PM
- Debbie Tsikuris said...
OMG, I hate going to the dentist too. But, you have Really got several reasons to complain! Unbelievable!!
I rally hope he gave you a "HUGE" discount!!!
ps, sry, I did laugh
- January 29, 2009 at 1:14 PM
- Mary Ricksen said...
I worked in dental offices for over thirty years and I still hate sitting in that chair. They are people just like you and me, there are good ones and bad ones. The hard part is finding a good and gentle one.
So you are going to have to do the search thing. Get some gloves and go for it. It happens all the time. One lady swallowed a four unit bridge, (four caps connected together). Now that coulda hurt comin' out.
With the cost of a crown today, you have to find it. Happy hunting!
- January 29, 2009 at 1:15 PM
- Emma Lai said...
Dentist visits are nerve wracking. I hate the resonating sound of the drill or even the little rotating toothbrush.
Two days after my husband got his crown, he was eating cereal...bran flakes to be precise, and crunch. Not the sound one should hear eating bran flakes. It was a holiday weekend and living in a small town in the middle of nowhere (otherwise known as Roswell, NM), we had to wait four days for the dentist to return and fix it.
- January 29, 2009 at 1:17 PM
- Regina Carlysle said...
Oh me TOO, Kell!!! We had one who slapped our little hands and was soooo scary. I've disliked going to the dentist ever since!
- January 29, 2009 at 1:19 PM
- Regina Carlysle said...
I had to laugh too, Debbie. It was just a comedy of damn errors...the entire morning. Finally I just laughed. His staff of course was upset but then they finally started to laugh too.
- January 29, 2009 at 1:20 PM
- Regina Carlysle said...
Oh HELL NO, Mary. I am NOT doing that. snicker. My dentist is replacing the crown for me and yes, they are verrrrry expensive. Think I'm going to encourage my kids to become dentists. My mouth dropped open when I saw what the root canal was going to cost. Oh MY.
- January 29, 2009 at 1:22 PM
- Regina Carlysle said...
You're from Roswell, Emma??? OMG. Small world. I'm in Abilene, Texas and we often vacation in Ruidoso. So we've driven through there many many times.
We tried to explain about the alien stuff to our daughter and she just REFUSED to believe it until we finally found a tv show about it. Now she's dying to go back to Ruidoso so we can drive through Roswell. :-)
Dental disasters always happen at the most inconvenient times. Once I had an emergency while we were vacationing in South Padre Island. I was freaking OUT.
- January 29, 2009 at 1:27 PM
- Susan Macatee said...
Oooh, I feel for you, Regina! I hate going to the dentist too, but I have an appointment next Tuesday to get my front tooth rebonded. I was eating popcorn about a month ago and my bond broke off. But when I went to the dentist, he found three cavities that had to be fixed first, so the bonding was put off. The only plus is, my dentist is so very entertaining. Conversely, he always seems to be running late and I so hate waiting.
- January 29, 2009 at 1:50 PM
I love your story. I too hate the dentist - with a grand passion. I needed a root canal a number of years ago - back in 'the day' dentists removed too much tooth when they put in fillings so one of my teeth cracked and that was the worst pain. My dentist, who did not do root canals sent me to - I kid you not - Dr. Cassanova. Oh my Gawd! Not only was he totally cute, he gave great root canal. So to summarize - I feel your pain and I'm glad the Heimlich maneuver worked!
- January 29, 2009 at 1:54 PM
- Tess MacKall said...
I literally leapt from the dentist chair and ran down the hall once when a dentist came at me with a needle. He looked like he was enjoying it too much.
When he and the nurse caught me in the waiting room they begged me to sit down. I stood awhile longer and they made me another appointment while the dentist talked to me and got me to calm down.
Same dentist that three visits later made some very unprofessional suggestions to me with his wife--the office manager--sitting only 30 or 40 ft away. They had just adopted a baby.
I don't like dentists. Don't trust them. Period.
- January 29, 2009 at 2:11 PM
I too have a dental fear. When I was about twelve I had our dentist's son, who had just graduated from dental school, dig out my wisdom teeth. About half-way through, the numbing effect wore off and I started to cry and beg him to stop, but he just said, "Almost there," and kept digging.
Needless to say, I didn't even return to have the stitches removed. I've had a fear of dentists for the rest of my life!
But I had to admit, I was laughing with you!
- January 29, 2009 at 2:53 PM
- Isabel Roman said...
I might be the only person here who likes her dentist. I've been going to him since I can remember and even after he gave me a big puffy cheek in high school (hematoma) I still go back to him. He's a super guy. But I learned my lesson. Floss, brush, rise compulsively! I haven't had a cavity since.
I do feel for you, though, even if I did snicker a wee bit. *G*
- January 29, 2009 at 2:55 PM
- Regina Carlysle said...
Heimlich!!! Thanks Julia! snicker. I could NOT figure out how to spell that one. HA.
Funny, when I told my story last night as good writer friend says she calls hers DR. HOTTIE!!! I kid you NOT. LOL.
- January 29, 2009 at 3:07 PM
- Regina Carlysle said...
Oh Tess honey! We've talked about this stuff before. My dentist is very nice and professional and the family has used him for YEARS but it makes no different. The staff knows to remind me to BREATHE. I clench my fists around the chair arms until my knuckles are white. It's just awful. And NEEDLES...sheesh!
- January 29, 2009 at 3:09 PM
- Regina Carlysle said...
Lordy, Taylor!!! You mean he kept AT IT???? OMG. I went through the whole thing with the deadening stuff wearing off and I thought I was gonna FLY outta that chair. Now it's gas for me.
- January 29, 2009 at 3:10 PM
- Regina Carlysle said...
BAAAAAD GIRL, Isabelle for laughing as me. SNICKER. Just kidding. I brush, rinse...do the whole thing. I never get cavities. Unfortunately, as we get older our teeth change, wear down, etc. What can I say??? Falling apart here. lol
- January 29, 2009 at 3:12 PM
- Amy Ruttan said...
OMG poor you. Regina I don't envy a root canal.
I have sensitive gums. They bleed, especially a lot. My dentist said, "Must be Gingivitis." Until they tested and found out it wasn't. Well, duh. They don't hurt they just bleed a lot.
Still every time I get a new Hygenist I get the same old "YOu must have gingivitis" schtick, until they read my file.
I floss and brush a lot because I don't want that problem.
Kelley I know a friend that was slapped by a dentist as a child. He was charged and fired after several more abuse complaints came out.
- January 29, 2009 at 3:46 PM
- Regina Carlysle said...
Ah, same thing with me Amy, except they always, always ask if I ate lemons when i was a little kid. Ummm NO. lol
- January 29, 2009 at 6:35 PM
- Genella deGrey said...
I'm not sure if a HAWT dentist would be better or worse . . .
Open wide . . . ?
I'd probably giggle like a horde of teenage girls.
- January 29, 2009 at 7:40 PM
- Emma Lai said...
I'm not from Roswell. I just happened to stop there for TWO years. I'm back in the home town of my heart, Houston. BUT, did I hear you say Abilene? Lytle's Steakhouse is the BEST steakhouse in TEXAS! I haven't had anything so good, well except for my husband's cooking, since we moved back two years ago.
- January 29, 2009 at 8:34 PM
- Rebecca J. Clark said...
I hate the dentist, too. Every time I go, they find several issues. I need a root canal REDONE (yeah, fun), 2 more crowns, and some cavities filled. You'd think I never brush and floss, wouldn't you? But I do both every single friggin' day.
Hate my dentist. Tell her that every time I see her, even though she's a lovely woman and very gentle. I tell her, "It's nothing personal, but I'd like nothing better than to never see you again." Sigh. If only that could come true... I'm certain Heaven has no dentists.
- January 29, 2009 at 9:11 PM
- Regina Carlysle said...
I KNOW exactly what you mean, Genella? Do you really want a guy like that looking at your dang tonsils???? LOL
- January 30, 2009 at 12:41 AM
- Regina Carlysle said...
OMG EMMA!!!! You could have stood in the parking lot of Lytle Land and Cattle Company and yelled and I would've heard you. I live in the neighborhood right across the highway from it. WOW. We lived in Houston years ago when we were first married and my husband was in law school. I loved Houston but we were sooooo damn poor then. I worked for the now defunct Houston Post.He clerked during law school for a downtown law firm. We were there during Hurricane Alicia.
I still say it's an incredibly small world. HA
- January 30, 2009 at 12:46 AM
- Regina Carlysle said...
I know exactly what you mean, Becky. I told my dentist I really really like him! I'm not sure he believes me...lol.
- January 30, 2009 at 12:51 AM
- Anne Rainey said...
We have the best dentist. She's SOOOO gentle. I've been taking the girls there since they were really little and I once told her if she ever moved, I'd be moving too! LOL
- February 2, 2009 at 1:22 PM


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