It’s freezing here. How could it be Easter weekend? Today, this is the weather report:

Cloudy and Windy

18°F
Feels Like
0°F

Updated Apr 6 09:25 a.m. CT

The best way to ring in the New Year is a week of your entire family throwing up with the stomach flu.  Yes, the stomach flu.  It started last Friday (the 23rd) with Collin; I puked Christmas Eve and Christmas day.  We had a brief reprieve until last night when Doug started to vomit.  So [...]

For one of my final projects, I am reading Emily Martin’s book Flexible Bodies: The Role of Immunity in American Culture frorm the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS. It’s a facinating read. Her text looks at the implications of medical authority, science as a social process, and our relationship to our bodies. [...]