Although I am choosing to get a stereotactic biopsy today on (from?) my left breast due to a constellation of stars on my first mammogram, it was by no means a foregone conclusion. There were things to consider first. “So, what is this procedure?” I asked the receptionist at the imaging center when I booked […]
Category: Misc.
Breast Health: Knowledge is Power
In my last post I talked about the spots on my films from my first-ever mammogram. They seriously look like specks of dust on the “contact print” image of the first set of shots. Smaller than grains of sand, even. They look like… like… nothing. I hadn’t missed them during a manual breast exam because […]
Do You Know Where Your Food Comes From?
Here comes another must-see movie that gives us a horrific peek behind the scenes of our nations food supply: Food, Inc. Following the honorable footsteps first laid in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle,and coming from a movie lineage that includes Fast Food Nation and Super Size Me, Food Inc.‘s goal is to raise awareness and bring […]
Embrace Your Curls, Don’t Chemically Straighten Them!
According to the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, chemical hair straighteners are some of the most toxic products that you can absorb through your hair and scalp. With a pH of about 12, similar to that of household ammonia or soap, chemical relaxers are among the most caustic cosmetic products on the market, says the Environmental […]
Natural Hair Color
I’m happy to admit to being forty (see me perform and you’ll likely hear me announce my age!), but it drives me crazy to find gray hair streaking like lightening bolts through my dark head. I know I’m lucky since my dad was completely gray by the time he was thirty, but I’m not ready […]
