by jess | Apr 10, 2012 | Blogging from A to Z Challenge
Idiopathic: an adjective used primarily in medicine meaning arising spontaneously or from an obscure or unknown cause. From Greek ἴδιος, idios (one’s own) + πάθος, pathos (suffering), it means approximately “a disease of its own kind”. “A...
by jess | Apr 9, 2012 | Blogging from A to Z Challenge
I had a handful of other ideas for H and then out of the blue…floated Helium. Here is my helium story, and how it helped me fall in love with books and reading. I grew up in the 1970s, back before helium balloons got their bad rap of having an ecological...
by jess | Apr 7, 2012 | Blogging from A to Z Challenge, Eye Candy
Going gray is a topic that immediately puts people on edge: many people consider it the universal sign of aging, or of ‘letting yourself go’. What if I were to tell you that there is a gray revolution going on out there, internationally, led by women of...
by jess | Apr 6, 2012 | Blogging from A to Z Challenge
For “F”, I figured we could have a little fun. Some of you know me well, others not at all. But here are five fun flights o’ fancy for you to figure out: fact or fiction? First follower to get ’em all right by 5pm EST gets something fabulous!...
by jess | Apr 5, 2012 | Blogging from A to Z Challenge, Uncategorized
I’ll admit, I am enamoured (that’s enamored, for you Colonials) with ENGLAND. I’ve had a crush the size of the Two Fat Ladies on the Motherland, probably since I was old enough to Sing a Song of Six Pence. Who doesn’t love singing about...
