Tag: ice

  • I’m on a blood thinner, because I have a tendency to form blood clots–DVTs (for deep vein thrombosis) in the professional jargon of the white coats, which can be dangerous when hiking around in your circulatory system. The only danger of the blood thinner that scientists have warned me about concerns the increased possibility of…

  • Probably it would be prudent for me to stay off of social media when events in my stomping grounds are the lead story in international news reports, and not for the first time in recent memory. But being a boomer, I occasionally peruse what my kids derisively refer to as BoomerBook, and unfortunately cannot give…

  • Ah, made it to winter break, which means this year that I get a reprieve from overhearing 10-year-olds talk among themselves about ICE. Attendance is down and it’s not all the flu. People are lying low. Our weekly newsletter implores parents to keep sending their kids to school, and to contact the office with concerns–we…