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…
Outside the window an agitated crow is taunting me on this rainy Sunday afternoon. He’s telling me to sit down and write. I just left a Norman Rockwell painting in that other bedroom. There in a comfortable chair, connected to wifi, within earshot of an occasional hiss of tires over the wet county road just…
This blog was never intended to make a soul feel sorry for me. I started it as a communications channel for friends and family a couple of days before my nephrectomy. Once the surgery was over and I was in throes of sickness, still writing, and people started getting touch with me, something changed about…
I live in Alabama and I don’t have any children in Columbus public schools. Two of our sons, Michael and Adam, graduated from Hardaway High School, so there’s that. In spite of literally not having a dog in that fight, I remain intensely interested in the health and effectiveness of our Muscogee County School District,…
Riding in to work this morning I was listening to the radio and the Christmas song, “Sleigh Ride,” came on. The strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion swirling in my head like a Colorado snowfall. I became aware that I was playing the percussion parts on the steering wheel. Beat for beat, especially the “clip, clop…
For all my male buddies out there, bend over and grab your ankles. This is going to be as strong as those ass-whippings George Cason used to lay on us when we acted up at HHS. Your wives and girlfriends are going to wonder why they don’t get notes like this from you. (By the…
I had a nice conversation with Dr. Tamorie Smith this morning. I was up front with her that I had beaten her up pretty badly in my last evening blog post. She was really nice and we had a great, although short, conversation. She answered all my questions with professional ease and I feel good…
Richard Oliver Barrett is a dear friend. We went to high school together at Hardaway High School and he went on to a huge, long career with the Hubbell company. They make electrical junction boxes and all those things used in construction to make offices, factories and homes able to safely use electricity. He’s married…
Just a quick post to report that I just heard the “all clear” from Dr. Pippas’ office regarding my CT scan this past Wednesday. Still NED. Still getting ready for the big kayaking adventure this fall from Columbus to the Gulf of Mexico. Still eating right. Still happy to be able to put the medical…