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Archive for July, 2008
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Pike’s Peak, Summer Snow, More Colorado Red Rocks, and a Tiny Bit of Asthma
In the middle of my trip, we spent two different days in Colorado Springs to A) ride the cog railway to the top of Pike’s Peak and B) walk around the Garden of Gods. Now the pictures get really good. I think I’ve mentioned a time or 10 that I’m no photographer, but you’d have to try [...] -
An Asthma Mom Among the Colorado Dinosaurs
I hear visitors here in Florida talk all the time about the sheer magnitude of the Gulf and how it humbles them. And sometimes, if I go to the part of the beach with no tourists and no condos or hotels and the water stretches all the way out the horizon, I feel it, too. [...] -
An Asthma Mom in Golden, Colorado
Three hours of delays in the already-hectic Atlanta airport last night, and I’m more than happy to be home in Florida today, even now during hurricane season and the dead, dead days of a humid Gulf Coast summer. Summer felt so, so different in Colorado, of course. How very strange to walk around in summer temperatures [...] -
Okay, I Lied
Guess I’m not updating until I get back, since we’re busier hiking up mountains and red rocks than I thought. Expect lots of gorgeous photos on Monday, but here’s the short version: my kid’s lungs are working like gangbusters here in the thin, clear air, although the altitude sure is tiring her little sister out. As [...] -
Into the West, Or an Asthma Mom in Colorado
I’m off in Denver for the week. Hopefully, as you read this I’m marveling at how remarkably my daughter’s spazzy lungs adjusted to the higher elevation after flat, flat Florida, and I’m planning the logistics of a move to Colorado after certain events transpire. All to be revealed, but I don’t want to jinx myself just yet. [...] -
Heard the One About the White House and the CO2 Email from the EPA It Refused to Open?
I wish I had time to do this one more justice, but I’ve been trying to a finish a couple of projects before I leave for vacation on Sunday. If you haven’t yet read the newest chapter in the story of the EPA, the Clean Air Act, and the White House, check it out. I’ll [...] -
Weird Health Wednesdays: Radioactive Chocolate, Medical Revolutions, Carnival Food
Here’s a delicious radioactive candy bar to rejuvenate you: From this gallery of other radium-enhanced products, from the good old days when a little radiation was good for you. Five Medical Revolutions, According to the UK’s National Health Service Know what’s most amazing about these advances in medicine from the past 60 years? That they’re common enough to [...]
