I’m still waiting for my labs and will report on those when they come in. My book is at the editor, so I have time on my hand to participate in a little satiric mischief. I now try to leave controversial things off my blog, however, there is no way to convert this into a…

I’ve added a new podcast, The Transexual-A Philosophical Perspective. You can listen to it here. I love controversy. I’m taking my first airplane trip since the pandemic to visit my family in Jacksonville this week. It is a bit scary, but I’m glad the numbers for COVID are down. I will have my cancer quarterly…

If you are like me, you are captivated by the war in Ukraine. The draw to me is certainly not the “sport” of war. I have never had a desire to play war video games and have a dislike of war movies. I was in the Air Force as a medical officer, and we had…

I suspect we are all mesmerized by the war in Ukraine. It breaks my heart. One of my greatest interest these days is the pursuit of truth, or epistemology (the study of how we find truth or knowledge). This horrible war is an example of lies gone to seed as hate. Putin lies to himself.…

I’ve been busy making podcasts. Actually, with my book at the editors and there is no writing waiting for me each morning, and the fact that I will be traveling starting this Friday for a few weeks, I thought I would do two podcast back to back. But these are two in a series which…

Here is my new podcast, titled Possible Answers to Basic Philosophical Questions and you can listen to it here. What are the possible answers to why the cosmos exist, why do we sense we are persons, and why is there evil in the world. This is a 29- minute lecture that summarizes a 2-hour lecture…

As part of my struggle against cancer, I try to exercise when I can. My friend Jerry was a godsend when I first came home from the hospital, encouraging me to walk with him daily around a 2.5-mile loop. As my strength grew, I added more exercise including dog walks, climbing our local 1000-foot mountain…

(Unrelated to this topic, I published a new podcast today, The Search for Truth; A Neurologist’s Perspective here.) What are Strokes? There was a psychological theory called transactional analysis (circ. 1950) that was somewhat of a bridge from Freudian psychoanalytic analysis to behaviorism. When I earned my degree in psychology (and a simple BS in…

I am a news junky, but only when there is something big in the world like an earthquake, or a war. As I’ve tried to get as much real-time information on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I found myself in a Russian chat room. With the help of a good Russian-English translator, I followed the…

After thirteen months of hard work, more than a thousand hours of typing and re-typing, the manuscript for The Runner Stone left today for the editor. The manuscript was the 23rd rewrite. If you were an early “beta reader” you won’t recognize this version. But your help and feedback was the foundation upon which I…