Summer activities and travel enticed me from finding discipline at a keyboard. I have finished transplanting 2/3’s of my garden and have done my autumn planting, closets are turned (where is the long awaited sweater weather?), and am grappling with thoughts of turkey and dressing...
It is hard to miss the recent news about Zika virus. The mosquito-borne virus was mostly affecting Latin America and the Caribbean is spreading with cases of Zika having been diagnosed in children and adults in central Oklahoma. Let's review findings that might alert you to the possibility...
Each office day, I have many discussions about sunscreens, hats, and additional protective clothing. There are many ways to cover your skin from the sun. However, tattoos are not one of them. In fact, they can make it harder to protect and treat skin. As tattoos have...
In my mind’s eye May should be a charitable month, with lengthening hours of daylight, renewed energies, spring cleanups undertaken, and new plans unfolding. Somehow, the violent winds that have beaten the plains states provide more apt metaphor than does the ideal of the cool...
APRIL is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers. Summer surprised us...
Despite dramatic late March snow across large parts of the country, the calendar says it all –spring is here, with summer approaching quickly. In central Oklahoma the spring bulbs have bloomed and the flowering trees are past visual prime. With sun drenched days ahead I am...
It has been 3 weeks since I began treating an upper lip full of advanced sun damage and pre-cancers, and I am looking forward to giving the topical chemotherapeutic cream a rest...
The discovery of tiny pre-cancers on my lip two weeks ago has prompted treatment of the entire upper lip with a topical chemotherapeutic medication. To my horror what was thought to be two small, abutting lesions turns out to be eleven widely scattered actinic keratosis. Translation:...
One of my greatest pleasures in winter months is sitting by the fire and reading. My sense of cozy, wintery wellbeing has been shaken by February temperatures in Oklahoma City in the 80’s, daffodils in bloom, and a garden that is awakening and in need...
In recent headlines comes news that Whole Foods is contemplating putting tattoo parlors in new stores aimed at millennial shoppers. While I applaud the embrace of entrepreneurial businesses under the umbrella of "Friends of 365," I am less certain about the inclusion of body art...