February, 2010

When I'm really, really mad, the best thing for me to do is to garden. Garden HARD.

yesterday, amid my busy schedule of many other things going on, I gave a fun and interactive talk for a local high school class. We talked for an hour about acupuncture in general and then community acu specifically.

I've been in Port au Prince, Haiti for the past 4 days, as part of a team of medical professionals with TIMA (Tzu Chi International Medical Association).

My experiences and days have been rich and I won't be able to adequately describe them in the 15 minutes I have to type this message and get ready to see patients for the day.

In the new Olympic sport of Moving the Goalposts. Or is it Gaslighting? Hard to define, but it's clear we have a winner! In this blog post, a recap of a groundbreaking performance, along with some commentary from this thoroughly embittered viewer.

Many times last year I got requests I couldn't accommodate.  Chiropractors offering to rent me a treatment room in their office, patients wanting private treatments, acupuncturists and other colleagues asking if I would do home visits.  Every time, I had to say no.

Welcome to the world of AcuMartyr --- a complicated superhero dedicated to defending acupuncture’s sacred, eternal, and immutable values established by the consensus of our venerable ancestors. Empowered by ancient wisdom, pop-psychology jargon, and new age insight, AcuMartyr communicates only through profound affirmations.

I write to you from my eyrie with 13 windows and a whole top floor above one of those coffee shops where everyone really does know your name.

I have a confession to make, recently I had a chance to do something, something I haven’t done in seven years, something dear to my heart, and so utterly addicting (to me), I just have to come clean and fess up:  I… went…. snowboarding.   Weee-hoooo! 

I once knew a friend named "Ace Forest" who lived in a squat shack in rural British Columbia, He would show up at the 49th parallel and when the agent would ask him "how long do you intend to stay in Canada?", he would answer straight-faced, "two days", or some such utterance, reasoning in his heart that after two days, he would certainly have lost all such conce

One of the best parts about being a community acupuncturist is in being a part of CAN.