Dr. Xanadu Amber
Hometown: Lexington, Kentucky (Yes – she got out!)
Education: Berkley Medical School, Berkley CA
Age: 42
The tale of the ubiquitous Dr. Amber is a curious one. She’s a rather curious person after all – which is why she started this blog in the first place. She’s voracious when it comes to the opinions of her peers and her fellows. Let her know your inner workings – if you dare! With the future of healthcare in crisis – who better than Dr. A to get the conversation going. Let’s get posting people!
At the hospital She is always all hands on deck – The hospital is like the pool and she is the lifeguard. If, metaphorically – there is P in the ool – she’s the one to get the chemicals to clean it up. That’s the general drift anyhow.
Now in her early middle age, Dr.A suffers the odd need for reading glasses. And after one marriage did not work out for the best – she being a Gemini and he needing to cheat with a nurse’s aid named Charlotte – she is now in happily unmarried bliss with her MS (Main Squeeze). Love goes out to him and his geodes.
In her copious free-time (ha) she enjoys the odd acrostic and whatever mystery letter that Janet Evonovitch happens to be on – is it X is for xpired yet? (ha).
She’ll end her bio with this thought – A little knowledge is dangerous – but a great deal of knowledge can be downright catastrophic if no one is there to bring order to chaos. There you go.
GLOBAL WARMING AND THE END OF MANKIND
MANEQUINS WOULD CARE, BUT WOULDN’T MIND
Out of the Mud and In Again
CLAUDIUS: Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, hatch out.
From I, Claudius and Claudius, the God by Robert Graves
As warming world evaporates its seas,
Swarming out of the mud come flies and fleas,
And clouds gather into great thunderheads,
Then rains pour down to fill the riverbeds
To overflowing of their banks with flood,
That spills out the poisons in the mud
And fills wells with toxins and parasites
And breeds mosquitoes and fleas, from their bites
Malaria, Yellow Fever, Black Death,
The black plague, that takes away the breath
Insect swarms that bite and infect the blood
Come, hatching out of shallow pools of mud
The swamps the land becomes where waters rise
The deserts the land becomes where heat dries
The earth where not even the mud remains
On arid, acid dunes, on lifeless plains
The fears of teeming human masses rise
As they fill up the car and choke the skies
Then they cough and cry for help from heaven
As they go from one billion to seven.
Billion, just in the last two hundred years
And they try to breathe, but because of fears
That rise from their air, hyperventilate
And fall into a heap, a useless state
But the ancient earth that seen its face changed,
As volcanic eruptions rearranged
It and boiled seas and moved coasts around,
Ice Ages brought mountains to the ground
The earth that came out of the lifeless void
Of space, has seen comet and asteroid,
And has its rules, that earth is not afraid
Of the mess that we humans will have made
In our own places, soiling where we live,
The earth can take away as well as give.
This give and take is what the world’s about,
When poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.