Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Take Me To Your Leda
Writing garden humor is deceptively difficult (this blog being proof of that)! I was therefore immediately intrigued when participants in an internet garden writing forum that I was reading started discussing a gal (Elizabeth Churchill), who used to write gardening columns for Regan Nursery, a rose nursery in California; a couple of forum members raved about her sharp wit. I looked up the Regan Nursery website, and there they were: almost five years of garden columns, under the name Dr.Leda, with some of the articles written in a fairly straight style, and some wildly outlandish. If you like garden humor, they are well worth looking up: http://www.regannursery.com/news/archive/index.htm. Unfortunately, they ended last spring, with a notice on the website that Dr. Leda was no longer around and no longer writing her columns. From her articles on the website it was apparent that she had moved from Berkeley to a small town in Louisiana; it turns out that she then developed an aggressive lymphoma in her chest, and is currently undergoing chemotherapy; she now has a blog, detailing her fight to cope with her illness and her treatment: http://www.spinningtumor.blogspot.com/Her quixotic, feisty wit still comes through, and I hope she prevails, and is able to return to garden writing; a series of garden books written like Henry Mitchell with an attitude would be a welcome addition to my library.
// posted by IBOY @ 7:06 AM 
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I've been reading As the Tumor Turns. That gal's got a light that shines like the sun.
Thanks for pointing to her other writings, I'm going to bookmark those!
Thanks for pointing to her other writings, I'm going to bookmark those!
Yes. The hard truth. Overworked and jaded staff. Earnest and hardworking interns. People filtered through a giant sieve of 5 minute increments.
It's rough reading.
How do we get it to change? I don't know.
I've been musing on this whole issue from a fairly macro perspective. What caused this crisis?
Not just lawsuits and large awards, but also the huge Boomer bubble, and improved medicine that allows us to survive heart ailments, diabetes, and cancers at a far greater rate than ever before, with all the neccessary expenditures to make that happen.
No easy answers. And so much to look at to try and identify the core issues, it's no wonder that congress (the ultimate committee) has thrown up its collective hands on the problem.
It's rough reading.
How do we get it to change? I don't know.
I've been musing on this whole issue from a fairly macro perspective. What caused this crisis?
Not just lawsuits and large awards, but also the huge Boomer bubble, and improved medicine that allows us to survive heart ailments, diabetes, and cancers at a far greater rate than ever before, with all the neccessary expenditures to make that happen.
No easy answers. And so much to look at to try and identify the core issues, it's no wonder that congress (the ultimate committee) has thrown up its collective hands on the problem.
Our medical system, as it stands now, is so very wasteful... if I were king, I would make it better at a third less cost... I'd have a bigger garden, too.
Don
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