Bornfamous

Dear God,
Sorry I haven’t written; things have been pretty hectic around here, what with Robby growing like a weed and feeling his oats, so to speak. He doesn’t actually eat oats, or oatmeal, but You know what I mean. Of course You do.
Yes, life has been busy. Mainly I spend a lot of time [...]

I’m always working, or thinking about working, on something about myself. Trying to lose weight, regain my health, grow a garden, do daily yoga/meditation, write some articles, help some other sick people, be a better housekeeper, get organized–I have so many goals and dreams. And when I stop fixating on myself for a moment–when my [...]

You probably think that I don’t post much because I lead a very dull life. Well, I do. But not always.
Here I was a couple of weeks ago, sitting at the computer as usual, when I heard a dog barking outside. Someone must have brought their pooch along to the carwash, I thought. But [...]

Money.
As usual, it’s all about the money–because of course, there’s never enough. I’ve experimented with Google Adsense, which might actually bring in a reasonable side income if I had any traffic, but I feel grubby having ads on a personal blog that doesn’t offer any added value. OTOH, with over 1300 pages, there is [...]

I’m feeling a bit skittish this morning, after the fourth rather significant California earthquake in a week. Turns out I’m not the only one:
The series of earthquakes was enough to revive anxious chatter Thursday of the coming Big One, a massive quake along the San Andreas fault. [E]xperts said they can understand the concern.
“I can [...]

Money.
As usual, it’s all about the money–because of course, there’s never enough. I’ve experimented with Google Adsense, which might actually bring in a reasonable side income if I had any traffic, but I feel grubby having ads on a personal blog that doesn’t offer any added value. OTOH, with over 1300 pages, there is [...]

Sorry to say that The Health Show didn’t work out. I’ve been stressing out about the prospect of producing a weekly podcast on a subject I know very little about, and finally realized that it’s more than I can handle. That’s why I get disability, after all. So I emailed my regrets and apologies to [...]

I seem to be having more and more trouble with my interpersonal relationships lately–the face-to-face kind, anyway. The more I try to be honest and say what I feel, the more I’m finding that people don’t like me. It’s very isolating. I’ve lost many friends in the past few years. Tonight, another one.
Is it [...]

Now that I’m committed to podcasting an hour-long health show once a week, I am in panic mode. I keep searching the web for health news, research, anything that might make a good first show–and I am in information overload. I can’t make up my mind, not only about a first topic but about the [...]

Doesn’t look like I’ve been doing much around here, but it’s been a busy week. Yup, that’s my new web site, Health Buzz, soon to be HealthBuzz.org. Instead of ranting on bornfamous about our toxic times, I decided to get serious about it.
Right now, there are just a few articles and links to health news, [...]

In the olden days, I wanted to be an actress. Okay, a movie star. But I had this little problem: stage fright. In college plays, I spent every minute that I wasn’t on stage, on the toilet. [Some people puke when they're nervous; I crap.]
So Hollywood appeared to be a better choice for breaking into [...]

A guy with the improbable name of Fox calls today while I’m eating lunch to say that he’s at the beach with my homeless ex, who looks really bad and is talking about killing himself with his insulin, and would I come take him to the hospital?
Let’s see: last week I bought Rusty a [...]

A long time ago, I started this blog with a promise to myself that I would write something every day. This would be my morning pages, written by hand in my paper journal first (according to Julia Cameron’s rules), and then transcribed here on BornFamous. It worked, more or less, until three years ago.
That’s [...]

I finally got a bed–a real bed!–yesterday, after sleeping [how many years, three? four? five?] on first a couch, then a chair, a cot and finally graduating to the luxury of an old mattress on the floor. Bought the bed from my friend Nicole, the lovely lady I met last spring when I briefly rented [...]

Yesterday, I was invited to a spontaneous, early Christmas dinner at a house in the mountains east of San Diego, where I stayed for a few weeks last spring–very clean air, renovated for MCS, HEAVENLY place.
Oh, it was wonderful to sit around a beeswax-candlelit table out on the porch [for the man [...]