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Viral Gastroenteritis

I’m now on my second week of a stomach bug that has waged war in my midsection.  Often an illness follows a trajectory like a hurled ball—a quick buildup to a peak followed by a long descent.  This stomach bug,

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The Importance of Washing Hands

It’s cold and flu season, a phrase that chills me as much as the ‘Back To School!’ banners happily strung up in stores in mid-July.  One of the many admonishments from health officials is to always wash our hands.  I’m

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Winter of Discontent

I consider myself a healthy person.  Throughout much of my twenties and early thirties I almost never got sick.  Then Baby Harbat was born and began trawling the seas of preschool bacteria to bring home every sickness possible in rapid

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They Watch, They Know

Lurking in our homes, sucking greedily from the outlets or slowly draining batteries, they are sentient.  How else can we describe the electronic devices in our lives that know when to shuffle off this digital coil?  For the past week

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