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Author Bio: Katie St. Claire I live in the Northern U.S. with my husband and son. I’m an avid reader and researcher, particularly drawn to the inner lives of my characters. More than anything, I love developing complex personalities, and plots that twist and turn. Readers often say, “I didn’t see that one coming.” That’s […]
A story unique in American History is that of an 85-year-old working physician in Wisconsin who admits to having been part of the Underworld, a system that began as the Cleveland Syndicate and subsequently became the prototype of the Mafia in America. A Touch of The Underworld by Dr. David Trucker, the pen name of Dr. […]
NOT TOO COCKSURE, by Marc Freden Sunstone Press, Trade Paperback: $19.99 retail IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT GAY HOLLYWOOD DOES BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, READ THIS BOOK! An unflinching, candid, and scandalous look at Hollywood: A world of secrets, sex and celebrity, where dreams can come true for those who have the ambition and willingness […]
I have some lab tests I’m supposed to get done. My doctor faxed the lab requests to Labcorp almost a month ago now. I’ve made three different appointments to go, and somehow, I’ve missed every one of them. They are testing me for paraneoplastic syndrome, as associated with a slow-growing type of cancer or tumor. […]
I want to introduce you to an online friend of mine. It might be better to call her a PHriend, but many of you won’t understand that. PH stands for the pulmonary hypertension that is part of the CTEPH that I have. It’s a cute way our support group calls each other… we’re PH-friends–phriends. It’s […]
For those of you who learned about it in college, or who are avid fans of the Big Bang Theory (love that show!), you know about Schrodinger’s cat. It’s basically about how, when you have this cat inside a box, that until you open the box, the cat exists in two different states at the […]
Ugh! So the other day, when I said I wish I had cancer, I was joking, universe. I did NOT mean for you to take me seriously. I was making a metaphorical comparison to cancer and the rare condition known as CTEPH. It wasn’t a request I was sending out to the universe that I have both. […]
An online ‘friend’ on Facebook who recently found my blog and then friended me there, introduced themselves to me by saying they were sorry to read about my health struggles. Without asking me anything about my health, and I realize in an effort to be positive and upbeat, this person said, “But smile! At least […]
I come here nearly every day to write something and almost never end up posting anything. Sometimes, I write for hours and nothing I say is what I want to say so I don’t post it. I feel I’m better for having written it. I guess I needed to get it out. But it’s not […]
Those who have been following my most recent health saga on Facebook know I’ve been having horrible itching for weeks now. We’re in the second week, going on the third, and though it’s a little bit better than the first week, it’s NOT getting better. I stopped a medication we think might be causing the […]
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