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I hope you all had a great 4th.  Today is the official “Independence Day holiday”, so we can do it all over again!  Be sure to fly your flag.  And remember you don’t have to wait for a holiday to do that.  Show your neighbors whose side you’re on. As I was cleaning up myContinue reading “more from my kitchen”

I practiced medicine for 40 years. I don’t know if I ever got it right. Upon retirement I happily shed the responsibilities of medical practice and haven’t looked back. My recent dive into my storage room looking for pictures for my 50th plus one high school reunion has found some additionals. In the early 80s,Continue reading “all that doctorin’”

I doubt you’ll be hearing this on the news.  A like-minded and most cherished colleague of mine brought this to my attention.  A paper in Vaccines (1) was retracted (2,3) by the Journal today after they’d accepted the June 2nd submission on June 21st.  The authors did not agree (4). Three docs from Poland, GermanyContinue reading “2 out of 3 ain’t bad”

A few of what’s left of the 169 who graduated from Vicksburg High June 1970 will gather 3 weeks from tomorrow at Indian Run Golf Club in Scotts for the 50th reunion that COVID robbed us of last year.  I’ve asked my class president and reunion committee chairman Forrest to include this song in theContinue reading “there are things to realize”

I had the best mother-in-law.  Ruth Olsen was an Ann Arbor girl, raised by an old Norwegian guy who talked funny and bound books for all the UofM eggheads needing to publish their theses.  She attended Ann Arbor High and graduated with no one famous, although my dear colleague George Thompson may have been close,Continue reading “my mother-in-law”

“The pretender” was a standby in the old Shoreland Days at U of C. Mary Ann and I debated if we wanted to struggle for the legal tender, which we eventually both did. I don’t know if we even had dark glasses. But each day we got up to do it again, and continue toContinue reading “more Jackson Browne”

I wrote this end of March, 2020, just as COVID was descending. Kathy and I were impressed at the working guys keeping things going. When’s their parade? It was mainly a beer run, off to Castle on the West Side with its fully stocked shelves and impressive collection of IPAs.  No outgoing today, with collectionContinue reading “mainly a beer run”

One from the vault. I wrote this 3/20/21 but never posted it. The thoughts are timeless, so why not share them now? I began to dabble in cooking in high school.  My mom, a great cook, had died when I was 10.  Dad took his stabs at putting food on the table, but let’s sayContinue reading “in my kitchen”

When you punch “health greed” into Google translate with the output set to German, that’s what you get.  Kathy and I were talking about activities that make you feel so much more healthy that sometimes you approach them with greed for more.  At the time, we were out for a long walk in the woods,Continue reading “Gesundheitsgier (“health greed”)”

While working on my book this morning, I’ve been diving deep into my “Writing and Philosophy” folder.  Here’s an item I found there that I thought worth sharing.  I know it’s baseball season, but college basketball schedules are being announced and it’s barely 2 months to kickoff at Michigan Stadium.  Off season is time toContinue reading “college mascots”