Successful hand transplants. Do the veins and nerves ask each other to dance? Do they tangle like tree roots, fire their guns into the other’s shins & lapse into tango for life?
My coat attracts snow flakes, stellar dendrites on my shoulders and sectored plates up the nose and on the lips as I walk […]
I keep spelling mustache wrong. Moustache. Mouse Stache? MUH-stash.
Lately I smile at strangers.
Halfway through spin class tonight, the instructor turned off most of the lights. Sprinting in the dark, the swarmlike hum of our collective fly wheels.
I printed out my entire book so that I can hang poems around the writing room and pace/fret/pace/fret […]
above: on the left, alzheimer brain; on the right, normal brain
“The brain isn’t as pretty when you get older–it’s just a fact…” …As my professor stated in the midst of our Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s lecture tonight. I knew what she meant. I knew what she was saying, yet still the statement adhered to the heart […]
Just read that one of my favorite movies from the 80’s is being made into a television show.
St. Elmo’s Fire.
Here is what I say:NOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo!
Michael Jackson died.
Since I’m in shock, I’ll do this:
and one of my favorite videos of all time:
just learned about this woman in my psych. class…
(from npr article)
Blessed and Cursed by an Extraordinary Memory
Jill Price can recall every detail of the last three decades of her life — whether she wants to or not. A rare memory condition causes Price to experience continuous, automatic playback of events.
“My memories are like scenes from […]
You know what I’m thinking about right now? Certain/not-so-certain questions about the self, usually found on Meyers Briggs-type tests. Such as: are you more spontaneous, or a planner? Do you function better with routine, or when the weeks ahead look like a row of question marks? Do you prefer roots, or uprooting?
Those are, undoubtedly, […]
Homunculus - the mapping of the body surfaces in the brain. Latin for “little human.” Commonly used to describe distorted human figure drawn to reflect relative space human body parts occupy on the motor and somatosensory cortex. In the field of neurology, commonly called “the little man inside the brain.”
diagram showing regions of the […]