I wish I could say how much we sat around and enjoyed listening to the great singer and having a great time, but I mean something else.  From his American Pie record, Don says, of the day music died, “Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn’t take one more step.”  There sometimes comes a time when…

Denise is here and took the photo.  

I’m back in my room after having a tunnel central line placement for dialysis. It went well. I feel like I’m becoming less human and more cyborg with so many tubes sticking out of my body. But it went well. I still feel my crummy myself. We will have bone marrow sample done here in…

No, this is not another blog where someone describes their journey though cancer and possible death, or at least it is not meant to be. Many people have written beautiful stories about their journey. No, this is simply an information page for friends and family who want to keep up to date with what’s going…

  I have discovered yet another fantastic wordsmith and observer of life and that is Hamlin Garland. I came across his autobiography, A Son of the Middle Border (published 1917), purely by accident about four weeks ago. As I am circling in on the final paragraphs,  I find that I must point out the writer’s genius.…

Cartoon of the Week: If you are a PA and you were ever in an emergency situation out in public, it can get interesting. This was especially true before 2000, when no one knew what you did. My approach (and it only happened a few times) would be to watch from the sidelines during the…

If I were God, and I’m not, I would have done things quite differently. I would have created people in the life pattern of the fictitious Benjamin Button. We would come into this world as an adult-sized, wrinkled ball of swiveled up flesh, hardly recognizable… but when identified, seen as a hideous form, barely human.…

  Waters of Bimini has been published for about a week. Our highest (spot) score on the national bestseller list was #3,000 for fiction and # 35 for medical fiction. Not bad . . .  but not spectacular. However, there has been no advertising so far and so I’m quite satisfied with its performance. Now…

Never change the blade of a cordless Dremel tool, without removing the battery first. Just don’t do it! Never start a plumbing project, after the hardware stores have closed. Never, ever. Never strip the insulation off a 110 V house power line with your teeth, even if you are “quite sure” the current to that…

I have been listening to as many novels as I can on my Iphone. Usually, such listing comes as a mental distraction to the physical pain I suffer when I put my body through that (self flagellation) religious ritual of jogging. I’ve listened to some horrible books, which have experienced great success. I call them…