Writers use words to construct images the reader can visualize. Sometimes the crafty writer, or maybe it’s just the lucky writer, can craft images that are far more vivid than an actual image, and far more personal, since the visualized image comes from the mind of the reader. This is a very subjective process. It…
There’s much worse places to be awake at. We spent two days getting ready for our three-hour trip. The whole family would be venturing to Smith Lake in Jasper, Alabama, to spend the July 4 weekend at the lake house of my life long friends, David and Pat Curtis. David and me share a special…
On July 4, 1776, a bunch of brave men with a whole lot to lose set about declaring independence from the British Crown. It was not an easy decision they faced together, for as Benjamin Franklin said, “We must all hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” They were a feisty bunch…
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. Lucius Annaeus Seneca He is simply known to us as Seneca. Born in Roman Spain around 4BC and forced by Emperor Nero to commit suicide in 65AD. He was a great Roman Stoic philosopher. His influence is still with us.…
Yes, I simply must. So here I sit at this keyboard with the overpowering need to write something, but nothing to write about. I seem to go through this every summer, and it is very early in the summer, the solstice just passed a week ago. Usually, my writer’s malaise coincides with the late summer…
I don’t write about politics. Here’s the thing I’m not going to actually say but sort of what I would say if I might say something, which I’m not, of course. Thad should have retired. Before his new 763rd term term is over, if he gets re-elected, his handlers will have to watch him like…
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. Wyatt Earp No! Not THAT Fast and Furious. Not the President’s and the Attorney General’s Fast and Furious. I told you I have foresworn politics, but had I not, I would write about it and several other things, too. And technically, I could write about it now and…
Fish and visitors begin to stink after three days Benjamin Franklin “How long will they be here?” Debbie asked me. “Just a couple of days,” I lied, referring to some of my somewhat impecunious musician friends on their grand tour of honky-tonks all around the region. “How many of them will there be?” she asked,…
ARMC welcomes RevPoint medical point-of-sale software. We see point-of-sale software everywhere else, so why not at hospitals? There’s a few things about this that I like, and a couple of things I don’t. Well, nothing’s perfect, and hospitals, just like any other business entity, need to get paid for the services they offer, since they…
Sorry….The kidney stone has forced the postponement of Chapter 3. This is Chapter 2.5 and it will not amount to much other than a confirmation that kidney stones are distractingly painful, and the lithotripsy is this morning at 6:30. I expect I will be advocating for my favorite patient right up to the point where…
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