Posts Tagged ‘Book’
February 22nd, 2009 by Agne Naujokas |
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Whether it is a naturally occurring event in a woman’s life, or whether it is something that occurred after a recent surgery or chemo/radiation therapy treatment – menopause is a change that may surprise the unsuspecting or uninformed woman. Most women faced with menopause automatically start with the question, “What kind of HRT should I choose?” This is the wrong approach. Patients need to become more informed before they sit down to have that conversation with their doctor.
Not too long ago during my medical school clinical training, I witnessed an exchange between a 26 year old woman scheduled to undergo a total hysterectomy for severe endometriosis and her consulting doctor. …read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Book, Endometriosis, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Hormone Treatment, Hormones, HRT, Hysterectomy, Menopause, Ovaries
Posted in General, Women's Health
December 4th, 2008 by Caryn Talty |
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Jonathan Friesen
It has been a while since I have read a novel that has just stuck with me. Jonathan Friesen’s Jerk California with Penguin Group Publishers is such a novel. He masterfully created dynamic characters that I really cared about.
The story’s main character is a rural Minnesota boy named Sam Carrier, whom we meet in his senior year of high school. His tics have made him a social outcast by his peers and a source of pity by many adults. Surprisingly, his disability is not the focus of the story. Sam lives with an abusive step father and a mother that doesn’t know how to help him. Sam meets Naomi, a popular and very beautiful girl from a nearby school. He falls hard but only admires her from a distance until after graduation, when his whole world begins to change for the better.
Sam and Naomi are just teenage kids, but they are conflicted, intelligent, drawn toward each other even though they come from opposite ends of the social spectrum. Sam is poor, suffers from Tourette Syndrome, and unpopular at school. Naomi is wealthy, beautiful, and popular. Their paths keep crossing until one day fate takes them on a journey of self discovery together. …read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Book, Classroom, Frankenstein, Friesen, Jerk California, Novel, Teen, Tics, Tourette Syndrome, Young Adult
Posted in Children, Education, Reviews, Tics and Tourettes
October 13th, 2008 by Caryn Talty |
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Front of the Class cast with Brad and Nancy Cohen
On the eve of Brad Cohen’s December 7, 2008 debut CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame original movie about his life with Tourette Syndrome, I decided to purchase his 2005 book, co-written with Lisa Wysocky, entitled: Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had to get a sneak peek into the wonderfully inspiring story. …read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Book, Brad Cohen, Film, Front of the Class, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Inspirational Story, Movie, Teacher, Tic Disorder, Tics, Tourette Syndrome
Posted in Children, Children's Health, Education, Parenting, Reviews, Tics and Tourettes
September 14th, 2008 by Caryn Talty |
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Jax Peters Lowell, author.
The 2008 Gluten Free Expo in Oak Brook, Illinois hosted a Celiac kids’ Cup Cake Club party and book reading with author Jax Peters Lowell. The event took place on Saturday afternoon and included more than 30 eager participants, young and old.
I took my three boys. We arrived early, so my eldest, recently diagnosed with Celiac, hunkered down immediately with his newly autographed copy and began reading it on his own while we waited for the party to start. He was riveted. He identified so clearly with little Izzie O’Brien and her struggle to find her way from chronic tummy aches to a return to good health, her struggles to belong and feel normal at school and at home were his own. …read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Book, Celiac, Children, Gluten Free Expo, Gluten-free, Jax Lowell, Jen Cafferty, Kids, Review
Posted in Children, Parenting, Reviews
February 13th, 2008 by Caryn Talty |
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Our boys received a wonderful gift this year for the holidays- a beautiful hardcover copy of Zoolidays, Written by Bruce Glassman and illustrated by up and coming artist Rolandas Kiaulevicius, and if that wasn’t enough they also got tickets to a wonderful show about that book and more called GIRO.
This book is a wonderful read, and the show is a fabulous must see for any emergent reader and budding artist. My boys absolutely loved the book from cover to cover, and the show really delighted their imaginations in a way that the book alone couldn’t do. …read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Activity, Animal, Art, Book, Child, Children, Coloring, Coloring Pages, Draw, Drawing, Education, Event, Family, Fun, Illustration, Kids, Performance, Review, Zoo
Posted in Children, Education, Reviews
October 21st, 2007 by Caryn Talty |
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You don’t need to rely on a future preschool teacher or the television set to teach your child literacy. Proactive parents can do quite a bit for their children at a very young age to set the stage for early reading and lifelong success at school. A child who feels successful has confidence, and as we all know, one who struggles with failure will often times develop poor coping skills and very low self-esteem. Don’t wait until your child is formally enrolled to start thinking about literacy. Start now. There are 10 very simple things parents can do with their toddlers that will ensure future success at school. …read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Activity, Book, Child, Children, Early Literacy, Early Reader, Early Reading, Education, Family, Home-school, Homeschooling, Kids, Leapfrog, Reading
Posted in Children, Education, Parenting
September 24th, 2007 by Caryn Talty |
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A twinkie isn’t just a cream filled cake made from milk, flour and eggs. When Hostess seals the little dessert treat into it’s individual plastic wrap it is a conglomeration of over 39 ingredients with a shelf-life of over 24 days. In Twinkie Deconstructed, Steve Ettlinger writes a road map for understanding the etiology of this familiar favorite Hostess snack. He chronicles his “Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What America Eats.” …read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Book, Experiment, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Hostess, Junk Food, Manufactured Food, Non-food Ingredient, Processed Food, Processed Ingredient, Research, Review, Snack, Steve Ettlinger, Thiamine Mononitrate, Twinkie
Posted in Nutrition, Reviews
