No Offense…
A few weeks ago, I took my daughter to a playground and there was a dog running up and down the slides and leaping off the top of the jungle gym. Due to an unfortunate incident when she was younger,…
Category Life
Side Effects May Include a Better Life
Many people draw their medical conclusions from advertisements and Reddit message boards. And initially, possessing the euphoria of the paid actors in pharmaceutical commercials frolicking in Tahiti seems pretty appealing. After all, it was their drug infusion that apparently rescued…
The Pursuit of Purpose
The degrees on your wall, the awards that you’ve earned You can’t take them with you, they’re going to burn The medals and trophies on top of your mantle Have as much staying power as smoke from a candle The…
Animal Farm
I just finished my annual re-reading of Animal Farm, and it takes some remarkable self-restraint on my part to not further allegorize Orwell’s classic into something like “Animal Pharm.” Although it does almost seem like the novella functions as a…
Stink Lake
There is a ravine down the street from our house next to a community playground. And this versatile basin serves as a reservoir for stagnant water, a breeding ground for mosquitoes, and a hub for decomposing plums at various times…
Again…and again…and again!
“Children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, ‘Do it again’; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people…
The Beauty of the Journey
“Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there’s a man who sits behind a counter and says, ‘All right, you can have a telephone, but you lose privacy and the charm of…
The Soundtrack of Life
My wife had a SCINTILLATING playlist from the early 2000s on the other day…so if this was your era, enjoy this melodious trek down Memory Lane…and if not, I’m sure I’ll write something else that’s more your “flavor” soon Don’t…
Don’t Ever Stop
I ran into one of my former patients at the gym, and he caught me in the middle of some full-depth front squats. “Man, I haven’t been able to squat that low for a couple years, ” he lamented. “Why…
Missing Mom
Dramatically sulking with a forlorn frown etched on her forehead, my daughter mournfully sighed. “I miss Mom.” This lament would have made sense when Mom was in Las Vegas at a Backstreet Boys concert…and it even would’ve been appropriate if…
