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In the previous article, I introduced the association between H pylori and cardiovascular disease.
If you haven't yet read that post, it will really help you, so I humbly request that you please read it first by clicking here.
Now, having read the previous post, you'll be familiar with the basic associations between H pylori and cardiovascular disease.
H pylori symptoms don't just include heartburn, acid reflux, belching, bloating, stomach pain and ulcers.
They can extend all around your body because of H pylori-induced nutrient deficiencies and inflammation.
In later posts, we'll cover how certain H pylori strains influence a host of processes and chemicals in your body that promote cardiovascular disease.
These factors include chronic inflammation, cholesterol, blood pressure, insulin resistance, C-reactive protein, homocysteine and others.
Ultimately, these cardiovascular effects can develop into heart disease – angina, heart attacks and even strokes.
In this post, I want to show you specific research connecting H pylori with the incidence of heart disease.
We'll cover other cardiovascular diseases like high blood pressure, insulin resistance and high cholesterol later.
This post is about full-blown heart disease.
To do this, I want to introduce an important concept about different H pylori strains.
Before we go any further, I'd like to point out that simply having a plain old H pylori infection might not increase you heart disease risk one iota.
To investigate H pylori and cardiovascular/heart disease properly, we have to split H pylori down into different sub-types or strains.
Some H pylori strains have what we call "virulence factors".
Keeping it simple, these virulence factors make H pylori more angry or aggressive.
These virulence factors increase the level of threat to your health, or H pylori's ability to trigger symptoms and disease.
Why is this important?
Well, it's becoming more widely accepted that H pylori might actually be a normal constituent of our gut microbe population.
In fact, H pylori might even be protective in some instances in ways we don't yet fully understand.
H pylori appears to protect against certain symptoms and diseases, including asthma, allergies and oesophageal cancer.
Putting it bluntly, you can't tarnish all H pylori strains with the same brush – some cause more problems than others.
When it comes to heart disease and other H pylori complications such as ulcers, it appears that certain H pylori strains are more influential than others.
Two H pylori strains in particular seem problematic
These are CagA and VacA.
(long names: cytotoxin-associated gene A (CagA) and vacuolating cytotoxin A (VacA)
H pylori has the ability to inject or secrete these toxins.
The net result? More symptoms and more disease.
So when I'm talking about H pylori and cardiovascular disease, it's the CagA and VacA strains that are of utmost importance.
For all we know, other H pylori strains might not have any bearing whatsoever on cardiovascular disease.
Put plainly, the scientific literature shows it's the CagA and VacA H pylori strains that are most closely associated with cardiovascular diseases.
Unfortunately, general medical H pylori testing doesn't generally tell you whether you have CagA or VacA strains.
In my opinion, this is a problem.
If you want to get tested for CagA or VacA H pylori, you'll need to run a test through a private lab.
Two labs I know of – DRG and Diagnostic Solutions Laboratory do this testing.
It's a single stool sample that is assessed for the DNA of H pylori in general, as well as CagA H pylori and VacA H pylori.
You simply do the test at home and send it to the lab.
If you want to do one of these specific H pylori stool tests, you can check out details here.
The European Helicobacter Study Group has been writing about H pylori and cardiovascular disease for some time.
The study group has its very own medical journal, called Helicobacter, which is published monthly.
I do my best to read every edition, which is how I get to know the inside scoop on so many issues that doctors are often unaware of.
Along with other medical journals, they've published loads of information on H pylori and cardiovascular disease.
Their info is very much worth checking out if you want more detail on anything that's H pylori-related, but it's quite "sciency" and not always easy to read.
In 2007, a group of researchers from Rome studied 40 people who had been diagnosed with ischemic heart disease.
Ischemic simply means arteries around the heart have been narrowed, reducing blood flow and oxygen delivery.
The patients did a coronary angiography, were assessed for classical heart disease risk factors and for CagA H pylori antibodies.
The researchers found statistically significant correlations between anti-CagA antibodies and the severity of arterial narrowing, or plaque build-up.
Furthermore, by looking at the CagA antibody levels, they were able to predict how severe the patients' heart disease would be.
Here is what they said:
"The results support the association between CagA-positive H pylori infection and coronary atherosclerotic burden. Further studies are now needed to elucidate the mechanism behind this association." 1
Next, a 2010 study conducted in China looked at how CagA H pylori strains might be involved in coronary heart disease.
Researchers estimated the severity of heart disease in each patient and H pylori status was assessed using a breath test.
IgG antibodies against CagA H pylori were analyzed to determine whether the CagA strain was present.
The researchers then divided the study subjects into three groups:
The severity of artery narrowing was higher in people who had H pylori CagA.
In this study, total cholesterol, "bad" LDL cholesterol, apolipoprotein B, C-reactive protein and oxidized LDL were also higher in the CagA-positive subjects.
These are all cardiovascular disease risk factors.
The researchers concluded:
"More serious coronary atherosclerosis was observed in CHD patients with H pylori-positive, CagA-positive infection. (This type of) infection might be involved in coronary atherosclerosis by modifying serum lipids, enhancing LDL oxidation, and activating the inflammatory responses." 2
Another study looked at 20 patients with coronary artery disease and 20 patients with normal coronary arteries.
Either the severity of artery hardening or the extent of plaque build-up was evaluated in the heart disease patients.
H pylori CagA patients had more extensive coronary artery disease compared with CagA-negative patients.
Here is the study's conclusion:
"These results support the association between CagA-positive H pylori infection and coronary atherosclerotic burden. Further studies are needed to better elucidate the mechanism by which CagA strains of Helicobacter pylori may promote atherosclerosis." 3
In a 2008 Chinese study, subjects were examined for aorta thickening (the main artery leaving the heart).
They were also tested for H pylori and the CagA strain.
Patients who had CagA H pylori infections had a 63% incidence of aortic atheroma (plaque).
Patients who had H pylori infections but not CagA had a 46.7% incidence of aortic atheroma.
Patients without H pylori infections had a 29% incidence of aortic atheroma.
The researchers concluded that once other risk factors such as smoking had been taken into account, CagA H pylori infection was independently associated with aortic atherosclerosis (plaque).
Their conclusion was:
"This study suggests a gradient of atherosclerosis between uninfected individuals and patients with CagA-positive H pylori infection and should prompt research into the role of CagA-positive H pylori infections in the inflammatory atherosclerotic process." 4
From these studies, the trend seems to be that CagA H pylori strains have an ability to contribute to heart disease.
Let's not "cherry pick" the data
Being honest, data from four studies are not really robust enough to draw convincing conclusions.
For all you know, there could be, say 100 studies and 96 of them may show no association between H pylori and cardiovascular disease.
If I chose to show you the four studies showing an association, whilst ignoring the other 96, you would be misled.
This concept is called "cherry- picking" in the medical and scientific world and it happens a lot.
How to avoid cherry picking
To avoid the cherry-picking issue, let's look at papers where scientists collated data from multiple studies and examined them for trends between H pylori and cardiovascular disease.
These studies are called "meta-analyses".
Here, researchers take data from lots of studies, pool the data and run complex statistical analyses to find trends and associations.
Meta analyses usually provide stronger and more robust evidence than individual studies.
In 2008, Zhang and colleagues examined 26 different case-controlled studies.
The data showed that CagA H pylori strains appear to increase the risk of strokes and heart disease.
The main conclusions were:
"Our results support the hypothesis that CagA strain infection is significantly associated with susceptibility to strokes and coronary heart disease." 5
In other words, data from 26 separate studies confirmed an association between CagA H pylori and cardiovascular disease.
A further meta-analysis examined data from 17 separate studies and drew similar conclusions.
In 10 of the studies, data revealed an association between CagA H pylori and heart disease.
There was no association between heart disease and non-CagA H pylori infection.
In 3 more of the studies, the association between CagA H pylori infection and heart disease was weaker, but still present.
In 4 studies, CagA H pylori was significantly associated with a narrowing of blood vessels / lack of blood supply in and to the brain (with the potential to cause strokes).
Again there was no association for non-CagA negative strains .
The researchers stated:
"We found a small but significant association between vascular diseases and virulent CagA positive strains of H pylori. The lack of association with CagA negative strains further supports the hypothesis of an independent relationship between virulent strains of H pylori and vascular diseases." 6
By the way, the information I'm presenting here is available to the general public at the PubMed website.
Isn't it interesting that despite being publicly available, the info is not reported by the mainstream media?
Nor do we hear many doctors talking about it.
I find this interesting because heart disease kills more people than any other condition.
Surely people have a right to know what's going on?
Pooled data from meta-analyses indicates that H pylori infection is associated with cardiovascular disease.
"Association" does not prove cause and effect.
We can't say "you have Cag-A H. pylori, so you're going to get heart disease".
It doesn't work that way.
What the data actually suggest is that folk infected with the Cag-A H. pylori strain are:
If CagA H pylori strains are associated with increased incidence and severity of cardiovascular diseases, we might also expect to see the occurrence of "acute events".
These include angina attacks, strokes and heart attacks.
Furthermore we might see changes in some of the metabolic markers associated with heart disease risk such as cholesterol levels and blood pressure.
The next few posts in this series explore these possibilities, starting with H pylori and its effect on blood pressure.
The blog series is split into several easy-to-read posts.
Each post is a snapshot of a chapter from my e-book, H pylori: From Heartburn to Heart Attacks.
In each post I've provided links to the other articles in the series.
I recommend you read them in sequence given below.
I also recommend you get the book, not because I'm a salesman but because I want you to have the information at your fingertips, for a lifetime.
The book contains info that is not included in the blog posts on how to use diet, lifestyle and supplement modifications to minimize your heart disease risk.
Next, I recommend you read the posts in this sequence (if you can't link through to the articles, it just means they have not been published yet, and are coming very soon.)
1 H pylori and high blood pressure (hypertension)
2 H pylori and insulin resistance, diabetes and cholesterol (metabolic syndrome)
3 H pylori and inflammation
4 H pylori and oxidative stress
5 H pylori, vitamin B12, folic acid and homocysteine
It's over to you – do you have any comments, questions or stories relating to H pylori, digestive health or even cardiovascular disease?
If so, we'd love to hear from you and you're very welcome to join the discussion by leaving a comment, below.


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Hello everyone,
Sorry to everyone for delaying this response. Needed to migrate mailing
lists location. =)
The original question is below and following that is the responses to the
My Original Question:
I would like to know if a graduate degree in HCI is needed to be in the User
experience field?
Do all of you have a HCI Masters degree?
When I view the job boards, I see all the companies requesting for a person
with Human Factors Masters or a HCI Masters degree. Do I need to get a HCI
Masters Degree?
I work in a software company in charge of User experience. I gain a lot of
knowledge through the various implementations of projects as well as all the
books/research and other sources out there to help in my design.
I don't think I would gain as much knowledge and experience taking up a
graduate degree. Everything that they teach in the Graduate degree, I can
just pick up a book and learn it as well as , if I read something that is
really beneficial for the software, I can experiment with it, on how it can
be incorporated in the software's we develop. I get real life experience.
Am I wrong to say that?...What is the benefit of going to a Graduate School
for a HCI degree?
So if you have 5 years of experience designing, but you don't have a Masters
degree, are you really at a disadvantage?
I would appreciate any and all replies to my query. Please email me and I
will summarize for the list if people need it.
Thank You. I greatly appreciate your reply.
Responses 1:
--> "I will always hire experience over degree. If you have never shipped a
product you are disadvantaged in my eyes. The best designers I know learned
on the job."
Response 2:
--> Would like to know if a graduate degree in HCI is needed to be in the
experience field?
No, but it sure does help if you want a great salary in a big company.
Do all of you have a HCI Masters degree?
No, I have a Master's in Information Design and Technology. I have worked
with many people who had master's degrees in various fields, from theater to
anthropology, including many technical degrees like CS, EE, Cybernetics,
Library Science and various flavors of Business.
When I view the job boards, I see all the companies requesting for a person
with Human Factors Masters or a HCI Masters degree. Do I need to get a HCI
Masters Degree?
You'd be in a position of advantage if you got one. I wish there had been
one available when I was in school.
Am I wrong to say that?...What is the benefit of going to a Graduate School
for a HCI degree?
Besides whatever you might learn from the profs and other students, you have
a piece of paper that gets your foot in the door for interviews and helps
you get promoted. I was told that a master's degree makes a $100,000
difference over your working life, no matter what it's in. My experience was
that it made a much larger difference in salary per year than I would have
thought: at least 20k per year inside the field and 40k per year when
changing fields to go into HCI.
Self-teaching and ongoing study are par for the course in either case.
So if you have 5 years of experience designing, but you don't have a Masters
degree, are you really at a disadvantage?
Maybe, especially if you're competing with a person w 5 years' experience
AND a master's degree. Some companies won't even interview those without
graduate degrees for certain positions. I would never have been hired at my
first Silcon Valley high-tech firm without it, and that job led to other
opportunities I would never have had without that first opp.
So my vote is firmly with the graduate degree. It was the best money I ever
invested in myself, considering the rate of return."
Response 3:
Everything that they teach in the Graduate degree, I can just pick up a
book and learn it as well as ,
Dude, you totally exposed your ignorance there. A decent graduate degree is
about research - you're creating knowledge that doesn't yet exist. So
there's no book to pick up.
Secondly, a graduate degree lets you explore things outside the day-to-day
grind of production. People buried in commercial projects often have a
harder time seeing 'the next big thing' than folks in academia because they
have a direct concern for timelines on projects directed at current needs.
A graduate degree can give you some credibility in conservative
organizations that no amount of experience will replace.
Finally, a graduate degree lets you hang out for a couple years with a
really smart advisor as a mentor (if you hook up with the right person).
That's invaluable.
All that being said, I don't think you're at a significant disadvantage
unless you want to work in a position that requires a graduate degree (R&D
positions in particular).
>So if you have 5 years of experience designing
I've seen people who have 15 years of experience in building enterprise IT
systems who couldn't design their way out of a wet paper bag. And I've seen
people with no industry experience come in and rock. Expect to show your
portfolio and actually do some design in any decent interview, degree or
Response 4:
If you're not looking for a new job, it doesn't sound like you need the
degree. What is your undergraduate degree?
If you are looking for a new job, hiring managers often request a graduate
degree and may not consider your application if you don't have one.
Another benefit of graduate school is learning to participate in a community
of scholars. Instead of just reading books, you do research and publish and
become part of a larger conversation, and you build your network of
relationships (which is extremely important for getting jobs). You said you
read books. Do you also read conference proceedings (e.g., the annual CHI
conference proceedings) and journal articles?
But it really depends on what sort of work environments you are interested
Response 5:
Don't quote me on this but here' a quick take on your question.
1. The software development, IT, and customers of usability and Human
Factors view us as "witch-doctors", our work being akin to a black art to
the uninitiated. As a result, they find COMFORT is using paper degrees to
seperate the wannabees and snake-oil merchants from the experienced and
tested practitioners. I don't possess a degree in HCI, but not only have I
proven the merit of my contributions, I'm putting together an evaluation and
design methodology that will end up being the equivilant of a PHD thesis.
The key is that we want to see evidence of the soundness of methodology
based on established criteria of academic research process.
Just reading books alone is not enough- putting the knowledge in all those
books TOGETHER in a rational manner is what you want to demonstrate.
Response 6:
it all depends on the company. I don't have a graduate degree in HCI (mine
is an MBA) but I've performed usability tests since 1996 and I think I'm as
good as any grad. student. I've learned a lot on the job. If I wanted it - I
wouldn't hesitate to apply for any job asking for CHI Masters, even though I
don't have one. Although we ask for HCI Masters in our postings, we would
certainly look at someone with years of experience. I don't think you need
one at all, and you know you don't. But the criteria is an easy way to
out "project managers" who were in charge of UI design once.
Response 7:
I'm one of the few people at xxx Company in my role who doesn't have a
graduate degree and so I am asking myself the same questions. I think the
answer to that question largely depends on your career goals. Do you intend
to stay in this field? If you want to lead user experience teams for large,
established companies then maybe a graduate degree isn't a bad idea. I
myself really enjoy my work, but have other interests, too, and so I want
to commit to a longer term plan before I quit my job for a couple years of
school. Good luck to you, and let me know how it works out!
Response 8:
Understanding what a graduate program involves is important before deciding
one way or the other just to make an informed decision.
I don't have a graduate degree, though I've looked at doing one. I think
that unless you want to do serious R&D, a PhD wouldn't be the best choice.
Really, a graduate degree can be a springboard for learning new things,
getting over a plateau in your practice (if you've plateaued) or making a
transition to a job that really requires a graduate degree (and many don't -
they'll look at you if you have industry experience. Some even have formal
rules for weighing experience vs a degree).
If you're interested in being a practitioner (ie building stuff) as opposed
to researching new things, then you'll likely be ok without a degree.
Really, it's where you want to be in 10 years (do you have the passion for
UX so that you _want_ to be in the field in a decade?)
Your advisor in a graduate program makes a big difference too - that's
really important no matter what path you take - who will be your mentor(s)
in the future?
End of Summary.
Any questions, please don't hesitate to email.
Jay Kumar
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Because if it does, the Harper government has made an all-in wager that global warming is not being aggravated by human beings, and that proof positive of this fact will soon be established in a new global consensus.
And if that reckless Texas hold'em bet proves a loser, there won't enough public relations firms on the planet to sell a more positive picture of Alberta's energy industry, or of our Canadian commitment to fighting change to the political, environmental and meteorological environment on which our prosperity depends.
Of course, that's not how our federal government would analyze the post-Kyoto world. For public consumption, we are still concerned about climate change. Indeed, Canada argues, to use Environment Minister Peter Kent's words after the climate conference in Durban, South Africa, that the Kyoto accord was, if any-thing "an impediment" to action. Ottawa insists that a better deal - one that includes major developing countries left off the hook under the old arrangement - can be accomplished by 2015.
But the truth is, those "ifs" are a bit like the one in the old aphorism that "if Granny had wheels she'd be a wagon." However imperfect the Kyoto accord was - not least because several countries, including Canada, had no intention of living up to it - it recognized that nations such as China, India and Brazil were unlikely to risk telling subsistence farmers their standard of living would have to be held back to be fair to North Americans with three-car garages.
That is, it recognized that effective leadership would have to involve leading by example.
And in any case, if Canada really believed man-made climate change was an existential threat, we wouldn't be making a virtue of following the laggards, regardless of how the latter viewed the matter.
Consider, as a case in point, the American war on drugs, a struggle in which Canada is a loyal ally.
In the face of the drug threat, Washington does not take the Harper climate-change approach, which would worry about failing to first get all the drug-producing nations on side. Imagine how likely countries like Mexico and Colombia would be to fight bloody battles with drug cartels if the United States were unwilling to act against domestic dealers and consumers beyond the point where it might hurt the local economy.
Of course, unlike climate change, the drug threat is viewed as a priority that places economic considerations into second place. The fiscal crisis south of the border would be improved considerably if roughly half a mil-lion drug offenders weren't in the slammer at a cost per inmate of almost $50,000 a year (if you go by California figures).
It should be a cardinal principle for an energy-producing land like Canada to be seen internationally as willing to act on climate change, and willing to sacrifice. We should recognize that what's important is not how we think foreigners should see us, but rather how they choose to see us, on the basis of self-interest and the evidence we give them.
And as evidence goes, failing to comply with Kyoto, and then arguing it was a failure because some countries didn't comply, wasn't the best. Neither was vowing not to take action more vigorous than the United States. And then there was the risibly illogical "ethical oil" argument, which effectively says we shouldn't worry about climate change because Venezuela violates human rights.
Recently, as most readers know, we had the curious case of Chiquita indicating support for the idea of an oilsands boycott. Eventually the company beat a retreat in the face of a vigorous pro-oilsands counterattack.
Canadians would be wise to view the affair as a warning, not a victory. The minds of millions of individual ordinary citizens around the world - who tellingly prefer the deliberately, unfairly negative term "tar sands" - cannot be changed that way.


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There may be some issue in terms of access to the VRACS dataset. However, the owner/collector of the data has okayed for me to teach a SAS seminar and to do a paper using that data. Therefore, it doesn't seem to be an ownership issue - but who knows.
Apparently the person who collected the data just doesn't think there is enough in the data set for a full dissertation. I am supposed to call to discuss the issue further this week (tomorrow). There are multiple data sets on HIV risk factors in India that have been recently collected and are lying around the Infectious Disease unit waiting for analyses. Therefore, if VRACS is too small, I can turn to these other sources. I am thinking the 3 paper dissertation model may be ideal for me using HIV risk in India as the uniting theme (with a broad question to link these paper to be determined).
In other news, I am thinking about backing out of an additional summer committment which would only take time away from the dissertation project. The other comitmment is a health-education activity where I would work with an interdisciplinary team in a community setting (e.g. AIDS men in Tampa, overweight kids in hernando county, diabetetic hispanics in ruskin, etc) to develop an education model and to assess basic epi stats in that population. It's a useful project in that it deals with health ed/policy and pays well, however, it takes time away from dissertation related activities and potential learning/interesting opportunities at TGH (rounding, etc). The main pros at this point for keeping the second summer position is that the extra money would be fun, its only 24 hours a week, Kryste is going to be quite busy anyway, and I have already agreed to do it (granted it doesn't start until June and they would certainly be able to find someone to fill the open slot - however, I don't really want to piss off AHEC in my first professional encounter with the group). Anyway, something to mull over for a couple of days.
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Our first meeting will be on April 3, 2011, at 6:00 PM at Blessed Sacrament Episcopal Church, in Placentia, CA, for an Ecumenical Evensong and Benediction. The guest presenter will be Father Al Baca, Vicar for Ecumenism for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange. He will speak on the history and current state of the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. A reception in Scully Hall will follow with a time for questions and answers and general discussion.
At this meeting we hope to collect a list of names of those who intend on forming the Anglican Use Society of Orange County with the purpose of becoming a parish of the forthcoming Anglican Ordinariate in Orange County. It is essential that this list be composed of those current Anglicans/Episcopalians who intend on being received into the Catholic Church via the Ordinariate, or those current Roman Catholics of an Anglican/Episcopal background.
There will also be a list for those simply interested in joining us to learn more, and aren't ready to commit, as well as those intending on helping with the formation of a parish (current Roman Catholics with no Anglican background), so that we can keep everyone in the loop together.
Update: The time of this meeting on Sunday, April 3, will be 6:00 PM.
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Today is the last official day of the Gratitude Challenge. It's hard to believe that November is over. It's hard to believe that I've been blogging for close to 30 days straight. It's hard to believe that I STILL have things to blog about (that people will actually read!!) Each day, each item of thanks comes to me in a moment. One minute I'm just working away in the office, the next I realize JUST how thankful I am for a job that I truly cherish and look forward to every day. One minute I'm chasing Sofia down, trying to get her to wash her hands, the next I'm moved to tears with my thankfulness I have for the 4 year-old who has my heart. One minute I'm driving in my car, rocking out to some Jimmy Eat World, the next I'm struck by the power of music, the ability it has to transport you back in time, to a specific moment.
Today, on day 30 of this 30 day challenge, I am thankful for these moments. I'm thankful for the awareness of my blessed life. I'm thankful for the ability to pause, for just a moment, and truly feel the gratitude I have for the things in my life. This challenge has been so much more than just a clever way to broadcast my witty sense of humor. It's been a change in posture, a true transformation of the mind. Because, you see, when I started this challenge, I wasn't sure I could find something to be thankful for every day. I was bitter, and angry, and focused on the hard and negative things in my life. I was so overtaken by the amount of grief and trauma that's been my last 25 years. I was so wrapped up in the past that I couldn't see the incredible and wonderful things that made up my life TODAY. I'm not sure what I'm more thankful for: These perfect, freeze-frame moments that bring me so much thanks and gratitude, or the clean slate, the fresh canvas that lies ahead of me. This new life that I've been given, where no one else holds the brush; where I get to decide the story that's written. I'm thankful for this challenge. I'm thankful for the eye-opening effect it's had on me. I'm thankful for the people who have been reading these blogs, rooting me on. The challenge may be over, but don't stop reading! There's plenty more gratitude where this came from. Like I said before, I plan to keep on blogging, keep on growing, keep on sharing. Hold on people, you're in for a ride!!
Now, any blog of mine wouldn't be complete without a picture of one of my favorite little people!
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Day 30: Moments
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- Anna said...
I love this. I'm thankful for your gratitude challenge because reading your blog each day has made me start thinking about all of the things that I'm thankful for too. It's also been fun to see how many things we have in common to be thankful for. :)
- December 1, 2010 at 7:55 AM
- Emily Branca said...
Anna, seriously! We have a lot in common. Maybe we should hang out some day :)
- December 1, 2010 at 10:56 AM
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(Shout out to everyone taking WordPress's Writing 101 with me right now. I'm so excited to read everyone's work!)
My love affair with writing was preceded by an infatuation with words. While riding the bus home from elementary school, I was often interrupted by perplexed children who incessantly asked,
"Why are you reading the dictionary?" I liked the words. I was fascinated with the myriad ways I could say something and I loved experimenting with my vocabulary.
In the 4th grade I came to a life-changing discovery while working on a group assignment. My group mates chose me to write the summary for a project we were working on because, as they emphatically repeated, "You're SO good with words!" My initial reaction was that they were only saying this because they were all too lazy to write it themselves, but then I really thought about it and realized that since I actually did enjoy being flamboyant with my speech, I could probably have fun with writing as well. I remember trying to be as descriptive as possible with the assignment and really racking my brain to recall all of the words that I knew and deciding which ones would sound most impressive together. I wasn't thrilled with the final product, but I remember thinking that I thoroughly enjoyed the process and that I wanted to keep playing around with this whole writing thing.
At the same time, I was feeling stymied as a performer. That's sounds really odd to say because I was, what, 9 years old? But it was true. I'd done a little (VERY little) theater and on camera work, but I wasn't exactly on track to becoming the next big child star. My mom would let me pursue performing opportunities here and there, but for the most part I was supposed to focus on academics. School came first. I loved film and TV so much, though, and all I really wanted to do was be involved in the entertainment industry. One day at the library (which was my favorite hang out spot) I was walking through the non-fiction section and came across some books on screenwriting. That discovery lead to me reading nearly every book in library about writing for film and TV. I took incredibly detailed notes and began writing my own screenplays. Once I learned about writing spec scripts for TV (sample scripts for existing shows that writers submit to be considered for work), I started creating very self-indulgent storylines on all of my favorite shows. I wrote parts for myself on EVERYHTING… I was adopted by Endora on Bewitched, I was Steve Urkel's long lost sister and I was the mysterious new girl with a secret on Ghostwriter.
I wrote for hours a day. I wrote until my hands cramped and bruised. I wrote until my parents took my notebooks away because I was neglecting my chores or being too antisocial at get-togethers. In retrospect, I understand that my parents were just concerned about me turning into a hermit, but at the time I felt soooo persecuted and misunderstood… Bless my heart.
In middle school, I began journaling as well. It was a great outlet for me to discover and be my authentic self. I could talk about my attraction to girls without worrying about the news being spread around as the latest gossip… again. Sixth grade was a rough year.
I loved writing so much that in seventh grade, I begged my mom to let me be home schooled so that I'd have more time to write. "I could get a literary agent! I could be published! I could sell some of my scripts or get a staff writing job on a show," I pleaded. I saw no value in going to school and socializing with my peers. I didn't really feel like I fit in and I felt too awkward and homely to perform anymore, so keeping to myself and focusing on writing sounded like a fantastic idea. Sure I was 12, but I was ready for a career! Nobody agreed. School came first.
As I got to high school, the rigors of honors and AP classes prevented me from writing as much as I wanted to. I still had my flowery language, but I felt self conscious about not sounding like everyone else and eventually changed the way that I spoke. I still relished my writing assignments in English class, but that was the extent it. I fostered my creativity in other ways; I felt more confident about myself at that point, so I started performing again in school plays and eventually began auditioning and booking roles outside of school again. Nobody thought that I was old enough to be a writer, but at least I was able to do things as an actor. So I let writing go.
I irrationally put writing out of my mind as a career option because I couldn't get any traction as a kid. In retrospect, it was foolish. If I'd waited a few years, I could have had quite the renaissance in college. For whatever reason, I associated writing with failure and left it alone.
This year I've started writing again. It's still invigorating, but I'm rusty. The ideas don't come as quickly and the words don't flow as freely. It's funny… as a child I wrote like it was my job and now I'm almost scared to revisit that part of myself. There's nothing holding me back, but I still feel an invisible barrier pushing me from going forward. I've decided to fight it. I'm unhappy, I'm lost and I have nothing to lose, so why not? Regardless of what anyone else had to say about it, my beloved words were always there and they never failed me. Writing helped me get through some very tough times. Before I was able to give my depression a name, writing was my therapy. It made me happy. It kept me company. It let imagine myself in worlds that I had no access to. And once upon a time, I was good at it.
Why do I write? Because I used to love it and I loved who I was when I did it… and I can use all of the self-love that I can get right now.


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Really nice job on the fabric, Brenda. I like the subtle reflection of the cherry on the cloth.
This picture brought tears to my eyes... it sooooo reminded me of the cherries we used to pick in my Grandma's back yard in Maspeth, NY (in Queens). The birds would fight us for them, but we always got some and ate each one like it was the last...very slowly and sucked on the pit like it had taste :) Thanks Brenda for the flash back !!!


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in other news i have obtained free chocolate for taking a stress survey for the new counseling service they'll be giving out here at the college. ^__^ chocolate is ♥
and i just got my money that was owed from my pel-grant and ladies and gentlesmen i will be a proud owner of a PS3 by week's end, so watch for pictures of the pretty new baby that i'll be getting. and I'll also be ordering some rum cake to keep my mom away from my money *mumbles nasty things* she has a bad habit of trying to get money that is rightfully mine and that i earn.
anyway. oct. 3rd. i will have been here at live journal for 3 years. and no i will not give them any money until they get off their little fucking soap box and starting getting things straight.
oct. 14th i will be offically 19 years old and i will be getting my second tattoo, and guess what its gonna be?? the signature lightning bolt from power rangers. just the lightning bolt everything else would look taky, but yes the power ranger's signature lightning bolt will be going on my right arm so i can wear it proudly. yes. i am a dork. and i'm dam friggen proud of it.
oct 31st Halloween chibis will be going up. remember thay will be friends only and i'd say about a week after Halloween they will go onto Deviant Art.
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