Where, oh where is my little lamb gone…

I walked out my front door this morning to head towards work, only to realize that in order to get in the car, it needs to BE there. Apparently my car was one of the eight other cars either stolen or vandalized in my neighborhood last night. And, while it’s certainly vexing (I love that word) and inconvenient, it’s not the end of the world, right? I didn’t have anything particularly valuable in the car (unlike my neighbor, who lost his laptop). Or at least I didn’t think I did, until I talked with my daughter. She was devastated. “Mom–the little lamb is riding with the bad guys!” was her concern. (By the way, she is a college student, no longer a little girl.) A couple years ago, when I started having to travel to different states for treatment, she put a little stuffed lamb in the back of my car, so “I would never be driving alone.” I’d always kept it there. And now it’s riding around with the bad guys. Right now, I’m hoping that the concept of bad karma is true…..

Higher Education

I just got back from a business trip. Our job was to look at our college curriculum and decide if it was relevant now, and if it would continue to be in the next five years. I know it sounds easy, but in a field like broadcasting things seem to change every day. For instance, I started discussing blogs as a form of mass communication a couple years ago, and almost none of my students knew what I was talking about. They all do now!

It’s a sobering realization that some of the decisions we made in that meeting will impact students from Texas and their education in the years to come. But I was heartened to see that everyone there was cognizant of that responsibility and took it very seriously. (In some cases, almost too seriously…….) Still, what a privilege to be able to contribute to the future. Gee…..sure hope we did the right thing…..hmmmm…..

RFI is A-OK!

What do a respected journalist for National Public Radio, a worldwide Christian publishing house, one of the producers from the Star Wars series, a calendar pin up girl, a cartoonist with a top ten web site (in the world), and I have in common? All of us in some way are championing radiofrequency ablation as a successful alternative treatment for cancer. Just yesterday, a story broke in a major publication in Canada about radiofrequency ablation finally being covered by their health system. Just a few weeks ago, a major insurance company in Tennessee reversed a previous decision and decided to cover radiofrequency ablation. It’s working…………