I don’t know why this still amazes me, but I’m always impressed? confounded? made a bit speechless? by the presumption of people. By that I mean, the certainty with which people have statements fall out of their mouths. You’ve heard these before — in fact, you may have even said versions of these yourself: “She’ll [...]

Just when I was thinking things were starting to get calmer around the office, my new-by-only-4-weeks office manager gave me notice this past Wednesday. She realized that, although she had asked me for the job, that she hadn’t really known how… detailed? brain-intensive? complicated? it was, and she realized that she didn’t have enough brain [...]

I was at my gym a couple of days ago, and as gyms go, it’s pretty nice. Considering I fork out $60 a month for it, it should be pretty nice. It’s got great equipment, location is awesome, I have my own locker there so I don’t have to drag stuff around, and they give [...]

This past weekend we were in Albuquerque, speaking at a national conference for acupuncturists. You might remember my post (aptly titled, “They Want WHAT? WHEN?”) about nearly throttling Will when we applied for this opportunity back in August — now we were finally here and (hopefully) ready to produce the goods. If you’ve read my [...]

I don’t know about you, but I LOATHE hearing recordings of myself, most pictures of myself (thank God for Photoshop) and, most of all, videos of myself. We’re always our own worst critic, aren’t we? Our voices don’t sound like they do in our heads, we think we should have said it differently, or God [...]

I was in Office Max the other day, looking for replacements for the not one, but two, letter openers that died within a week of each other. You’ve seen these – the credit-card looking ones, that had a pointy-bit that “led” into the letter, and WAY back in the corner of this thing was a [...]

It’s the first day for my new office manager, and we’re about 3 hours into her training, when she lowers her voice to ask, “You guys don’t make a pot of coffee here, do you?” I had to giggle. And tell her no, we don’t — it’s not like I don’t drink it occasionally, or [...]

It’s a weird thing, Facebook. Last night I got a call from an old friend, who asked how things were going and then said, “Oh, but I already know from your Facebook posts!”. Umm, not completely. I’ve noticed that while I might make snarky comments about what’s going on, I’m sort of skimming over the [...]

It’s been a hell of a week. Actually, it’s been building for a while, but now we’re in the thick of things and that explains why I’m a little behind on posting. It all started with the tiny little decision (don’t these things always start with just a small thought?) that we would upgrade our [...]

A few days ago, the weather channels started to predict that we would have snow, sleet and extremely cold weather today and instantly people started getting whipped up into a frenzy. First, we had a patient cancel an appointment for SATURDAY (tomorrow, when it’ll be above 50 degrees because of, you know… the weather). He [...]