If you want to know my opinion about the war in Gaza, and I’m not sure if you do, I think all wars are a work of insanity. The most evil of evils. But if you want to understand this conflict in Israel more honestly, I suggest that you listen to the Israeli survivors and…

Dear friends, My monthly labs came in last night and once again, I’m still in remission from Multiple Myeloma. This makes 15 months of remission, for which I am profoundly grateful. I attended a Multiple Myeloma update conference this week, virtually. It was a mixed bag. On the good side, for the first time I…

John Legend ask the question in his song Show Me; I can’t stop questioningO God of love, peace, and mercyWhy so much suffering?I pray for the world, it gets worse to meWonder if you’re listening I suggested to our church that they do a program on where God is when there is suffering. I had…

First of all, I use my term “age of war” flippantly as humans have been in a state of war for the past 50,000 years, less so today than in most of our history. Overthinking The term “Overthinking” is however a realatively new term in our lexicon as depicted in the Google Ngram graph below.…

This is one of those late night/early morning word purges, so pick any heading that you are interested in, realizing that some of this is redundant. I did type fast so be gracious with my typos. Introduction This is not my final statement on my thoughts on the pursuit of self-worth, which I will return…

To summarize the points I’m trying to make here is, 1) we all wrestle with feelings of inferiority at times, 2) social mores demand that we only reveal our successes, never our failures, and 3) one of the best ways to combat this universal social ill is honesty. We all fail in 80% of our…

I wanted to spend this part looking at the scientific literature as it relates to self-esteem. There are good tools for measuring self-esteem, such as the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. Unfortunately, after reading twenty or more articles, I didn’t produce much useful information. For example, it was never clear how prevalent significant issues are with self-esteem…

Introduction It is that time of year again, when the eternal blue skies of summer yield to the thick blanket of monsoon clouds. Soon cool, misty rain will mark each day sending us all indoors. For eight weeks I had been on a hectic schedule with my cottage building, trying to beat those rains. The…

Health Update: Monday was my monthly visit with my oncologist. Once again, my labs show the major cancer markers are normal, although one (M-spike) was gone and now has returned. This reflects 14 months of remission, for which I am deeply grateful. We don’t know what the return of the M-spike means (yet). My renal…