When the Cards Aren't Fair, Change the Game.
If you are reading this on Thanksgiving Day, perhaps it is early and you have not gathered with family and friends yet. Perhaps it is after your celebration and you are now on your phone because it is your security blanket. Perhaps it is right NOW your family/friends meal but you just really need a … Continue reading GOBBLE GOBBLE 101
I could get very used to speaking in front of medical professionals, residents, fellows, and any other labels that society has placed on these humans who have been called. to FIRST, DO NO HARM. Recently, I spoke with a few hundred of them and explained how and why HARM had been DONE to me, not … Continue reading GRAND ROUNDS PART II
I am writing early this week to let you know why I will not be writing on Thursday. Got that? It's kind of like in the movie Spaceballs when the dude asks "When will then be now?" Answer: "Soon" I have been invited to Columbus Ohio this week to participate in something called Grand Rounds … Continue reading THURSDAY NOVEMBER 13, 2025
Recently the movie Back to the Future turned forty years old. Yikes. I saw it in the theater as a kid living in 1985. Fun fact: When Marty goes back in time by accident, he lands on November 5, 1955....the day that the fictional Dr. Brown invented the flux capacitor, which is what makes time … Continue reading BACK IN TIME
I have consumed 30 cheeseburgers this year but yesterday one of my old students met Mark Hamill who plays Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, and two days ago another old kid sent me a photo from Dodger Stadium where he attended game 4 of the World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto … Continue reading WHAT ARE WE DOING?
What's the deal with yard sales? You're not selling your yard! Hahahaha....boooooo. Read this next line with your inside voice as the counselor in South Park: Yard sales are bad mmmm'kay? Haters gonna hate and tell me how much wonderful stuff they have "found" at yard sales over the years. I don't buy it. That … Continue reading YARD SALE!
Let's talk about fire. With matches. NO! Not that kind of fire, you twisted reader of my words. I'm talking about the fire that can happen naturally when two people get together. For reasons that I do not completely understand, I have been responsible for a few people meeting and falling in love. It's pretty … Continue reading THE MATCH GAME
Apparently hanging a horseshoe with the ends pointing up is said to capture and hold the luck inside. When I was a kid, I lived in a ranch house that had a 2 car garage under the south facing side at the bottom of a paved driveway. Somewhere my father got his hands on 2 … Continue reading THE HORSESHOE
I got bit by the travel bug shortly after college. A friend and I took a random trip to Atlanta to visit a girl that I went to high school with who was working for CNN at the time. This was in 1996 shortly after the Olympic Games had been held in the city. We … Continue reading PACK IT IN
Many years ago, someone said that all politics is local. Perhaps. Those of you who read my humble words each week will also note that this post is coming to you one day earlier than usual. This is deliberate because I just can't wait to share a little side interest I have going on at … Continue reading IT’S ALL LOCAL
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