After watching Cloud Atlas yesterday, I ran into a new friend who is doing some work with me at Waldorf and we got into a very inspiring conversation. I’m trying to connect the dots in my life to walk the line that draws itself from inside me then out. My dots start with Tin, and move through education (not a cookie-cutter, test inspired, grade driven education, but to really develop as a human being and…
Good morning this gorgeous fall-ish Sunday; I’ve been up for eight hours and I feel as if I am in need of a nap. So goes the story of those who rise at 3:30 am. I looked up insomnia and it appears it arises out of stress and depression, but also afflicts the elderly. Have I truly crossed into territory where I would be referred to as elderly? I’m trying to make my list for…
I keep getting these spam emails about baldness – hmmm, let’s see, I wonder why. Yesterday, I went over to Swirl to hang flyers for Waldorf’s open house and a friend told me that another friend had said my hair was starting to grow back. She looked at my smooth pate and said, um, I don’t think so. I yam what I yam.
When I returned to New Orleans after being in California for sixteen years, I was taken aback by Margaret Orr, our local meteorologist – she looked fabulous. Not to mention she had become a redhead, my own personal favorite shade. So yesterday, when I was in Saks getting my Kiehl’s moisturizer and I ran into her I said, “You know Margaret, I have to say you look stunning – I mean you are more beautiful…
A friend of mine has finally discovered that her horrendous migraines are a result of her gluten intolerance, but on looking up gluten intolerance you see that emotions play a large role in it. Similarly, I was reading what Dr. Weill has to say about Hashimoto’s and he suggests an inflammation free diet, which means no lactose, but again Hashimoto’s and emotions are delicately balanced as well. A lot of the natural health articles I…
So turns out I’ve slayed my thyroid yet again – I’m taking too high a level and it is in and of itself killing my thyroid. Too much of a good thing – there you have it. So now I am going to start on a new dose tomorrow – .88 – to be precise and hopefully this is the magic pill dose. On the positive side I ordered a new wig and I ordered…
When I was waiting for the dermatologist this morning, the nurse was taking my information down and she said to me, “Too bad it’s not gonna stay cold cuz I was finnin to get my boots.” I had come in sporting Tin’s Hot Wheels cap because we had a turn towards winter but then by the time I reached the doctor’s office, it had already climbed to 80 degrees – I felt her pain. When…
So I went for blood work and to see the dermatologist this morning and basically things are what they are – I’ll get the results of the lab later this week, but the dermatologist said that there is pretty much nothing she can do to get my hair growing. Once my thyroid is level, she could give me steroids and/or my endocrinologist could give me an intense hormone therapy treatment over a course of two…
I have yet to have a Monday that wasn’t fraught with an escalating to do list and a bad habit of sudden guilt over so much to do and so not wanting to do it. I broke the day up with a swim that was fabulous. While I was in the pool, a friend came by on her way to yoga – we haven’t seen each other in a bit, and she hasn’t seen me…
Last night, we watched Patrik, Age 1.5, a Swedish film about a gay couple who adopt what they think is a baby, but turns out to be a teenage boy. Touching. And then I picked up Whatever Passes for Love is Love by John Stoss and began again this book, which I had picked up a week ago and then a week got in the way. More on this later. Monday started at 4AM, with…