Pissing in the Pool

It's almost July and the days have gone all sultry.  Now we'll all be doing what we can to keep our core temperatures near normal for the next two or three months.  For me this means dressing to accentuate natural evaporative cooling, scheduling my day to take best advantage of the cool times of the day, and, of course, frequent trips to the creek.  For many, many others a major part of keeping cool involves a swimming pool. 

When I think about swimming in public pools I always remember that my dear husband's grandpa used to look at everyone getting their swimming gear together and say "Why would I want to swim in a public urinal?"

To Gift or not to Gift . . .

Christmas is almost here and today I'll be spending time preparing the few gifts I'll be giving.  Admittedly when I was young, this was a really big holiday for me.  But, over the years a number of changes have happened in me to cause me to question the way this holiday works.

Touch Pads Are Evil

For the last four or five months my shoulder, elbow, and sometimes the muscles going down the right side of my spine have been in pain.  The level of pain has not been constant, but the pain itself has.  I have not been able to do cow-face pose

for this entire period of time, or at least not with my right arm being the lower arm.  This really bummed me out because the last time I was dealing with this type of pain (on the left side though) cow-face pose was the cure.  Everything I tried to get rid of the pain was useless.