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“Thanksgiving is Friday!’  Our Thanksgiving came on Friday this year.  O.k., I’m late.  TG was Thursday, our nation’s most unique and wonderful holiday when we express the gift of gratitude while stuffing our faces before or after watching the Lions lose.  Oh, that waxing gibbous moon, can’t beat the heavens! Our Thanksgiving Day began sprightly enough.  I’d been working onContinue reading “TGIF!”

We’ve been having stuffed jalapenos so often lately at our place they’re starting to feel like a staple.  And why not?  That delicious bite into hot, zippy, creamy, crunchy, and rich is pretty sublime.  While they’re pretty fussy to prepare, the ritual can be entertaining, and so rewarding!  Now, there are many versions of these treats.  What we’re making hereContinue reading “poppers!”

For those of you who haven’t yet sidled up to Delbert (1), here’s a booster.  I was annoyed that a track from “One of the Fortunate Few” was skipping and not playing, no matter how clean I got that disc.  With the choice of buying a new disc versus leaning on the Ann Arbor District Library, IContinue reading “Del more”

Come next month, I’ll have not seen a patient for 5 years.  But those questions coming in from friends and relatives can still jog this old medical brain.  A couple weeks back, Ron, who’s a distant cousin, good friend, and husband of much missed Barb (1), a nurse who used to field most of his medical queries,Continue reading “stroke: rheum for improvement?”

O.k., it’s a hard “g” and not much different from what French cooks call beurre clarifié (clarified butter), but where’s the fun in that? I’ve learned a lot in my foray into Indian cooking.  Besides some incredibly tasty dishes, I’ve learned some of the tricks Indian cooks employ to make their fussy recipes less complicated.  Chief thusContinue reading “ghee whiz!”

Delbert McClinton is a Lubbock Texas boy who made records and enthralled audiences for 50 years before retiring last year.  He’ll turn 83 on November 4th.  I got to know him when he was a regular on Don Imus’ morning TV show in the 90s, which had grown out of his radio show that stretched to backContinue reading “come to Delbert”

Medicine at Michigan is the glossy quarterly published by the U highlighting happenings at “Michigan Medicine”, the latest marketing term trotted out to “brand” all the things that happen at the MECCA (sure don’t call it that anymore!). Last week, someone there sent out an e-mail to everyone with some conceivable tie to the medContinue reading “U asked”

I’m breaking my self imposed proscription on writing about COVID. Dr. Robert Malone invented (and patented), with colleagues at the Salk Institute, the molecular techniques that led to the use of injected mRNA as a means to make a susceptible host make components of a virus that would induce an immune response. Uh, huh, theContinue reading “vaxx idiocy”

Did your wife ever go on a diet and make you stop eating things you liked?  That happened here starting last February when the missus signed on to the “PhD nutritional program” (1).   I’ve not gotten deep into their weeds, but it seems their main focus is avoiding foods with a high glycemic index (potentialContinue reading “loaded c-rice”