Month: November 2008

  • Disaster

    This post is going up on Thanksgiving Day 2008 in the U.S. So what one would expect is a post and a song about how we should be thankful, or some other theme that directly addresses the day. Well, that’s not what I’m going to do — exactly. There are millions of people around the country…

  • Hearts and Matters

    As I mentioned in my previous post, the emotional heart is a delicate thing, and it can be injured easily. The emotional heart is also something that cannot be quantified; that is, it is difficult to measure a person’s emotional state. I can order a test that shows the function of the heart in electrical…

  • Heart Attack

    There are many things that cause damage to a person’s heart. A blocked artery leads to changes that can cause death or disability. A weakened heart muscle can result from one of those arterial blockages, or possibly from a disease that directly affects the heart muscle. In all of these situations, the result is a…

  • New Life

    Remember the story of Aladdin and his magic lamp? There are various versions of it in circulation, but the basic story is that Aladdin finds a lamp with a genie who can grant wishes. Back home with it, his mother (not recognizing its value) is tricked by a door-to-door salesman into trading the genie-enhanced lamp…