My last blog post was April 13. I have tried every day since to gracefully accept the measure of health I can wrestle from a disease process that is for now being held at bay…by a pill a day. Those pills cost my insurance company over $500 a day. The math nearly brings me to…
Music is a huge part of my life. Always has been. At almost 64 years of age, I find music is the frame upon which I hang the events of my life. I might not remember that the event happened in 1989, but I remember with startling clarity hearing Rick James’ “Superfreak” in my ears, sitting…
I reached out and took the bell from my friend and fellow St. Matthews in-the-Pines Episcopal Church parishioner, Nancy Reid, and settled in for my annual hour of standing at a red steel kettle for the Salvation Army. If you’ve never had the pleasure, it takes a little moment for you to get your groove…
I’m so hungry. Like a desperate man roaming in the desert, I’m conjuring perfectly plated dishes of my favorite foods in hallucinatory flashes. Last night I stormed the kitchen. With pure love in my heart, I built a handcrafted fra diavolo sauce. Crushed garlic, San Marzano tomatoes, Vidalia onion, extra virgin olive oil, salt, pepper,…
We leave tomorrow morning for a quick trip to Emory for a follow up on my radiosurgery with Dr. Liza Stapleford. I had an MRI without contrast media last week. Since Dr. Pippas ordered the MRI, he’ll have to give the OK for the radiology department at The Medical Center to release a disk containing…
I got the call on Christmas morning that I’d been hoping I’d get this Christmas. My nephew Andrew Myers has asked Sally McGuire for her hand in marriage and she accepted! Why, you might ask, is the such great news for me? Because I fell in love with that girl the moment I met her…
Grooveshark Song Link: Evening Kitchen by Band Of Horses This is a perfect song for a perfect day. Family in every bedroom of the house and in the barn apartment. We’re up early drinking coffee and sitting around the kitchen laughing and telling stories. Some that are new and others that are still funny after…
Let me say right up front that it was shocking for me to see what a fat ass I am on television. And, knowing that I was going to look like a fat ass and still charging forward with this, shows just how much I wanted to make this helicopter flight happen for that sweet…
Santa Claus is coming tomorrow for a local three-year-old. Thanks to Russell County Sheriff-Elect Heath Taylor, Russell County Sheriff Tommy Boswell, Muscogee County Sheriff John Darr, Harris County Sheriff Mike Jolley, Phenix City Police Chief Ray Smith, Columbus Police Chief Ricky Boren, Metro Columbus Narcotics Task Force Agent-in-Charge Lt. Charlie Kennedy and Columbus City Counselor-Elect…
This is John Henry Clark. We had a serendipitous meeting this past Saturday morning on the sidewalk on Broadway in front of Country’s Barbecue. John Henry and I both braved the cold to come out for the Reindeer Run to benefit The Children’s Miracle Network at The Medical Center. I was there to shoot photos…