Tasty Morsels

by Dr. Deah, Feb.20, 2012

What are you doing for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week?  “I didn’t know.  I should have known, I didn’t understand.  I had no idea.” These are phrases spoken frequently during the new documentary, Someday Melissa.  This documentary, proficiently crafted by a talented filmmaker, Jeffrey Cobelli, underscores how easy it is for loving involved families to [...]

by Dr. Deah, Feb.19, 2012

 “I didn’t know.  I didn’t understand.  I had no idea.” These are phrases often spoken after the fact, looking back with 20 /20 hindsight.  These are the heart wrenching phrases, hand wringing phrases, and the verbal symptoms of a bad case of The Should Haves. Feb 26, 2012, is the first day of National Eating [...]

by Dr. Deah, Feb.12, 2012

Mixed Nuts  That’s how I feel about Valentine’s Day.  Like a can of mixed nuts.  Remember those cans of Mr. Peanut Planter’s mixed nuts that would magically appear once or twice a year in the living room?  At first glance they looked like the regular dark blue can of roasted salted peanuts, easy for me [...]

by Dr. Deah, Feb.07, 2012

When I was 15, I studied theater at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City.  It wasn’t my first experience in a theater school, but it was my first in the Big City where the air was thick with the vibrations of Broadway and Off Broadway theaters.  The menu of classes was rich and ranged [...]

by Dr. Deah, Feb.02, 2012

Today is Groundhog Day.  Before 1993,  Groundhog Day was all about whether the infamous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, was going to pop out of his burrow and see his shadow or not.  If he saw his shadow, he would retreat underground and winter would last for another six weeks.  Personally, if I was Punxsutawney Phil, and [...]

by Dr. Deah, Jan.21, 2012

“I’m addicted!” “It’s a total time suck”  “I can’t stop checking in!!” “It’s just an exercise in voyeurism and exhibitionism.”  “It’s a substitute for real intimacy.” “Do I really want to know what EVERYONE is having for breakfast???” These are all descriptions that people have shared with me about Facebook and I can’t say I [...]

by Dr. Deah, Jan.15, 2012

Dr. Deah’s Tasty Morsels I have been battling a most pernicious bug since the first day of the New Year.  Perhaps some strange kind of karmic pay back for the blog post I wrote expressing my disdain for New Year’s Resolutions…or mere coincidence, either way, I don’t get sick very often, and when I do, [...]

by Dr. Deah, Jan.08, 2012

Every January, for the past 3 years I have posted this video on my Facebook page.  Each year I hope it will be obsolete.  Each year I DREAM it will be my last and I will get flooded with emails, texts (and now tweets ) begging me to, “Drop it already Dr. Deah that’s old [...]

by Dr. Deah, Jan.02, 2012

To My Readers: 11111112.  No I’m not writing this blog in binary.  That would have a zero in it I think…math…not my thing.  Numerology? Also not my thing.   But it’s hard to ignore that I am writing this blog on 1/1 and it is my 111 Tasty Morsels Blog Post and my first blog of [...]

by Dr. Deah, Dec.17, 2011

Let’s play a game.  I say, “East Oakland, California.” You say, “____________.” Before I moved here in 1989, I called the local police and checked in about the crime stats.  After all, I would most likely be raising a family at some point and wanted to hedge my bets proactively.  I was told that the [...]