Author: Lynn Dorman, Ph.D.

Opinionated octogenarian! Still aging, writing, teaching, and more....
  • March

    Since living out West – it’s hard to gauge the adage: In like a lion; out like a lamb for March. We had such lamb weather to end February – that the March “lion” only feels cold in comparison. Trees are beginning to get leaves; my bulbs are blooming and we were all in short…

  • Youch

    Can’t believe it’s been over a week since I last posted here. What have I been doing? Meetings on all sorts of topics [art, politics, health, sailing,] exercising, socializing and getting lots of vitamin D from external sources : – ). It’s really hard to stay still at a computer when the sun is out…

  • An Alarming Trend

    A tripling of strokes in middle aged women! And why is this happening? From the research by Dr. Amytis Towfighi, a neurology specialist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles: Nearly 2 percent of women ages 35 to 54 reported suffering a stroke in the most recent federal health survey, from 1999 to…

  • A sun break !

    After a fairly wet and/or chillingly damp stretch of time – we had a sun break today. Mt. Hood was so visibly clear that I was tempted to hop in my kayak and go take some photos but my better sense prevailed. To take photos while on the river I have to stop paddling –…