Category Archives: Health Care
Changing the Subject Line: Would You Open That E-mail?
No kidding, I received an e-mail Friday bearing the following subject line: Up to 55% off air transportation (plus, teeth whitening) E-mail is one of the more profitable direct marketing channels, because you can test results and because, hey, no … Continue reading
Filed under Creative, Health Care, popular culture
Let’s Go Spelunking! Adventures on the Digestive Health Ward
I had a colonoscopy this week, but it got me out of meetings. What do you wear to such a procedure, I wondered when the alarm went off Wednesday morning – brown shoes? It was the first time I’d agreed … Continue reading
Filed under Health, Health Care, Uncategorized
FDA declares DNA test DOA
“WASHINGTON (AP) — The largest U.S. drugstore chain, Walgreen Co., said Wednesday it will hold off selling what was poised to be the first over-the-counter genetic test, after the Food and Drug Administration said the kit has not been proven … Continue reading
Filed under Headlines, Health, Health Care, Uncategorized
Top 10 Signs You’re Getting a Bad Massage
10. Therapist holds grinder over you and asks, “Cracked pepper?” 9. Massage table is stainless steel with gutters to capture bodily fluids 8. When you say “Shiatsu,” therapist says “Gezundheit” 7. When you pay extra to have warm stones placed … Continue reading
Filed under Feeling Listless?, Health Care, midlife, Women
Post-traumatic Stress Syndrome Easily Cured with New Socks
Get yourself some hosiery and buck up, boys.
Filed under Health, Health Care, Nine Eleven, popular culture, Shop til you stop
Jacket by Armani. Face by Ferragamo.
Like it or not, fashion designers color your world. They inform your purchases of clothing, sunglasses, house paint, furniture, jewelry … even automobiles. Remember the Pierre Cardin Cadillac? You may not buy the label, but whoever made what you do … Continue reading
Filed under Creative, Health, Health Care, popular culture, Uncategorized, Work
A1 anyone?
To attract media attention and spike international readership, this week’s post comes to you from inside a giant silver Jiffy Pop balloon drifting over the Alps. In here with me may or may not be a kidnapped Louisiana Justice of … Continue reading
Filed under GPS, Health, Health Care, popular culture, TV
Aisle 27: Prosthetics, Shampoo, Extension Cords, French Horns
It may just be me – I date-stamp my hosiery for freshness, after all – but I struggle to find what I’m looking for in the pharmaceutical palace that is the modern, full-size drugstore. Oh, it’s there. Everything is there. … Continue reading
Filed under Health Care, Shop til you stop
E Vomitus Restructurus
With 10% unemployment comes heightened wariness among the other 90%, fear they may be next to move money up the endless conveyor belt of the vertiginous pyramid of capitalism by packing up their cube decor and moving under close escort … Continue reading
Filed under Health, Health Care, Holidays, Uncategorized, Work
Patients with Patience
As a follow-up to “How to Put Your Child Through College Housing,” my daughter just traveled to Costa Rica and Panama with other pre-vet students, to learn while helping villagers with their animals. This little guy showed up with a … Continue reading
Filed under Health Care, Travel, Women, Work
