Teaching ethics by being unethical

Journalists need to learn the ethics of reporting, we can all agree on that. But in attempting to teach an object lesson on victim privacy, professor Al Salvato crossed the line into what I believe is unethical territory himself. In his role as an instructor at the University of Cincinnati, he handed out [...]

If you have breasts, you need this

I saw an ad on TV yesterday for a “can’t live without” product — Bra Smart, a molded form for drying your bras. It taught me the horrors, complete with pictures, of daring to walk around with a wrinkled bra. I never considered the outrageousness of that, and obviously I should have. [...]

Weighty pregnancy issues

A study published in the British medical journal, The Lancet, by Drs. Eduardo Villamor of the Harvard School of Public Health and Sven Cnattingius of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden says that gaining as little as 7 lbs before pregancy, from a healthy BMI of 23 to an also healthy BMI of 24 raises the [...]

Friday pet-blogging

In an otherwise dark room, Rogue basks in a patch of sunlight.

It’s not going away

The National Academies — the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine — have released a study detailing what many of us already know; that women are being filtered out of high-level science, math and engineering jobs in the United States, and there is no good reason for it.
“Compared [...]

A plan of action

This last month, my anxiety has been pretty constant. Not panic attack level but nagging, getting worse as the day progresses. I do NOT want to increase my meds, so I had to stop and take a look at what things I could do to make it better. Surprisingly (or perhaps [...]

Friday dog-blogging

Edgar can sit quite nicely when I have a Scooby Snack in my hand. Notice my son’s guitar and bass in the background — at any given time, there’s usually 3 or more musical instruments (including a stand-up bass) in my living room. Every time he wanders through, he picks up something and [...]

How to be a better blogger

All the flattering comments lately (thank you!) have gotten me thinking. I appreciate your feedback more than you know, and you’ve all boosted my confidence about my writing as well as my subject matter. In that vein, I discovered an article this morning that distills my thoughts about what makes a good blog. [...]

Reality check

You regular readers who check in a couple of times a week are a rare and beautiful thing, and I appreciate every one of you. It’s a little discouraging, though, that the vast majority of my 120+ hits per day comes from search engines, what I call Drive Through visitors. Every once in [...]

Artificial ego-boost?

I’ve never been tempted to Photoshop a picture of myself. Okay, so that’s probably influenced as much by my lack of photo editing skills as much as by my self-image security, but it’s a line I haven’t crossed. Instead, I just avoid the camera. Meredith may stick a camera in my face [...]

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