I blogged this the other day; my NPR name is Karmen Siena. http://verbatim.blogs.com/verbatim/2009/04/my-new-name.html

Both "Ryan's Song" and "The Champ" just about did me in when I was a pre-teen.

I once met a woman (here in the U.S.) who got ovarian cancer. One of her eggs was saved before her ovaries were removed, and it was fertilized by her husband's sperm and then implanted in her mother's uterus (her mother had to undergo some hormonal treatments to halt menopause etc.). So this was a real case of a woman giving birth to her own grandchild.

My blog is about all my interests: books, movies, cooking, my kids, liberal politics, Apple stuff, grammar (I'm a copy editor), etc. Come see for yourself!

I get Citi rewards too, and on another card I get LLBean $10 coupons -- never had a problem with either.

It's been retracted: http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2008/04/h2o_is_ok.html

I'm so afraid of clowns that I'm afraid to watch the video. I knew that Johnny Depp and I were meant to be!

Mine's up, and I'm quite pleased with it:
http://verbatim.blogs.com/verbatim/2008/01/cd-cover-meme.html

The average bed is home to about 1.5 million dust mites. (Incidentally, it is thought that making your bed up nice and neat allows the dust mites to flourish in their warm, dark lair; whereas leaving your bedding flapped open wide makes them die of exposure -- the only argument against making my bed I need.)