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Friday Links – Inhaler Identification, Vitamin D, More on Javonte Woods
About.com on Color-Coding Kids’ Inhalers When my daughter was little, I used to write out pages and pages of instructions for her babysitters. No, I don’t mean her Asthma Action Plan – I’m talking about my notes and explanations that accompanied her action plan (isn’t asthma fun?) This wonderful tip would’ve saved me at least a [...] -
Things That Matter – MLK Day 2010
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. More MLK Quotations Unlike many collections, this one sources each quotation with speeches and dates. Synopsis from How Stuff Works A summary of Dr. King’s role in the civil rights movement and the movement itself, some video, and links to [...] -
I’m Sort of Back
I’m slowly – and I do mean S-L-O-W-L-Y – getting myself onto a post-holiday routine but lemme tell ya, it’s hard. For starters, the girls don’t go back to school until Wednesday. WEDNESDAY! What was the school board thinking when they created this schedule? Clearly, it wasn’t about telecommuters who need to get some work done. Also, [...] -
It’s Thanksgiving
(Photo by stock.xhng user mikecco.) So have some pie, watch the parade, enjoy your (hopefully) long weekend, and I’ll see you all next week! -
It’s Not You, It’s Me
We’re changing a little of the design and a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff here at Asthma Mom, so if things look a little weird, don’t worry. The site will return to normal working order Monday morning soon, and all content will remain available in the meantime. -
Cleaning House
Not literally, though. I have no plans to clean my actual, literal house anytime soon. By *house* I mean *this blog,* which will go through some minor renovations next weekend. Most of the work involves background stuff you’ll never see, but some of the visible design and a little of the navigation (though not much) will [...] -
The Truth About Health Care Reform
For the record: This blog supports health care reform and a public health option, and longtime readers know that’s in part because of my experience with the inability to acquire health coverage during the first half of my pregnancy with AG in 1998. What those frightening months of no insurance – and therefore no maternity care [...] -
Dear New York Asthma Parents
Are you in the Queens area? Feel like helping a graduate student out with an article? Sure you do! Check it out, straight from my inbox to you: Hi all- I’m a student at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and I work full time in promotion at NBC Universal in NYC, and I’m hoping some [...] -
On this Economy and My Story: Some Lists
When AG was around 15 months old, I left my full-time job for what was meant to be the first few years of her young childhood. This was in the spring of 2000. I had graduated from college in the spring of 1998, so I had not traveled a terribly long distance down the career [...]
