The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together… (Shakespeare: All’s Well That Ends Well, Act IV, Sc II.) Elumbated.* It’s an archaic word meaning “weakened in the loins” according to the OED. It apparently derives from the Latin elumbis “having a dislocated hip (from
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Scripturient: The Cancer Diaries, Part 13
It’s been an emotional, roller-coaster week for me (if you’ll pardon the cliché…). Back and forth to Barrie for consultations, scans, and tests, more blood work, phone consultations with doctors and hospital social services staff, schedules set, schedules changed, confusion over medication, appointments upset. All in all a rather trying
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I should have started this a while ago. Perhaps when I received the first news something as wrong. But it took a while to really sink in. And then it was upon me. Although this is personal, I wanted to share it, in the hope others might find it useful.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Intransigent CPAP Evangelist
Do you snore? Get tested for sleep apnea. I (used to) snore. Loudly. One time, when I fell asleep before Arb, he took his phone and recorded me snoring, then played it back in my ear until it woke me up. It was ghastly. I also used to be incredibly
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR PSA – Helpful Gender Toy Chart
Filed under: Gender Issues Tagged: Gender, PSA, Toys for Girls and Boys
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Pet Adoption – Just do it. :)
Not caring if this is a repeat, it still rocks. Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: Pet Adoption, PSA, SPCA
Continue reading350 or bust: We Could Have Stopped Climate Chaos But We Were Too Damned Cheap
What a beautiful Friday morning in my part of the world. The sky is blue and clear on a minus 16 degree C March 1st day. I’m watching two pileated woodpeckers enjoy the suet in the bird feeder just outside the window. They certainly are impressive birds, especially close up!
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Amazing Mind Reader
We are a skeptical bunch here at DWR and claims of mind reading tend to set off our bullcookery detectors, but let me assure you this is for realz peeps, and I fully endorse this video and the message contained within. A hat tip to mystro for plucking this handy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Voting Fruad – More Republican Shenanigans
A substantial portion of the view DWR gets is from the United States. Consider this a NSFW PSA from your friendly Canadian neighbours. Filed under: Politics Tagged: Disempowering People, Humour-ish, PSA, Republican “strategy”, Republican Fail, US Election
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Contraception – Why is there *any* contention about this?
Other than libertarian or misogynistic concerns, both that are as useless as pants on on giraffe, I don’t see what the problem is. Women win, their partners win and society wins. Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: Common Sense, Contraception, Feminism, PSA, US
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