Posts by Liza Blue
Unintended Consequences
Unintended Consequences In the US health care system, the people are represented by three separate yet equally important groups; the doctors who treat patients, the employers who offer health care benefits and the insurance companies who administer them. This is their story. Donque Donque (start Law and Order theme song) Actually, many people wish that…
Read MoreClean Plate Club Murder Mystery: Chapter 36
The next day was bright and sunny. The working world must have been elated that this perfect day fell on a Saturday. The beach would be crowded with body surfers and beach volleyball, and the bike path full of bikers and roller bladers. But this was shaping up to be an intense work day for…
Read MoreNaming Rights
I am currently trying to write a murder mystery, not because I have a great plot line in mind, or a deep roiling well of family dysfunction and tragedy to draw from, but mostly because I want the naming rights. I figure I have very limited opportunities to name things – my children, pets, maybe…
Read MoreClean Plate Club Murder Mystery: Chapter 35
It was now about 5:00 and I was beat. I desperately wanted to avoid talking with Simba today – I needed at least an evening to collect my thoughts and figure out how to approach this fragile woman. This was the type of strategy session that Ralph and Fanny loved, but I didn’t want to…
Read MoreHe/She/Ze
(This fanagram is also available as podcast. Click on podcast in the category menu at the right.) I first ran into the pronoun “ze” (pronounced zee) at Frances’ graduation from Grinnell College. In the written material, the third person singular pronoun was always a composite slashed affair of he/she/ze, and similarly the possessive pronoun was…
Read MoreClean Plate Club Murder Mystery: Chapters 33-34
Chapter 33 I left the car in the visitor’s parking lot and crossed the busy street to Sylvia Wister’s studio. The store front windows featured a display of her Family Photography Project with a description of the program. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the program provided an opportunity for students to take…
Read MorePodcast: Rendering Judgment
You know that expression, “being sent off to the glue factory?” Well, this is what that is all about – the rendering factory.
Read MorePodcast: Warm Spot in the Lake
What IS that warm spot?
Read MorePodcast: Baseball, Earlobes and Running Backward
Ruminations during a slow-paced baseball game, including people watching and categorizing different styles of earlobes, and considering the implications if the bases were run in the opposite direction for a change of pace.
Read MoreA Life in Passports
When you turn sixty I suppose that it is inevitable to get misty eyed and look back. After all, I am standing on what I hope is a threshold (and not a precipice) between middle age and the next phase – which I cannot bear to label “old age” or even “senior citizenship.” I don’t…
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