When I was in high school, all four years, we had a vocab book in English class. Every week, there was a new list of words and definitions and useage to learn. I remember practically nothing from [...]
Sunday was one of the worst travel days I’ve had in a while. Flights were all on time, but the level of ignorance about service dogs was just all too apparent and made things difficult. [...]
Music is basically a religion to me. My life has been figuratively and, well, yeah, literally saved by music. My adoration of lyric and verse is well documented, so I won’t get all into that [...]
Okay, if you’ve heard me present or read any of my books, you’ll likely remember Barb, my favorite nurse from my tour of duty in Barnes-Jewish Hospital. And if you’re especially familiar [...]
Mid September, 2001. Maybe a week or 10 days after the World Trade Center fell and America was changed forever. If you remember, the FAA grounded all flights for several days. A day or two after [...]
As a kid, my 4-H club would go to the local nursing homes every year in December. We’d do Christmas carols for the residents, pass out candy canes, that sorta stuff. Doing this instilled in me a [...]
I’m a guy. And I think guys are inherently fixers. The fairer sex, on the whole, often see “fixed” as being bonded by communication. I’m kinda this way, too, but usually only with my wife. One of [...]
If you are a Barnes-Jewish Hospital employee in St. Louis, I want to invite you to attend any of the following programs next week. It is a huge honor to go back to the very hospital which saved [...]
On January 1, 2007, I started a list that I keep to this day. It is nothing more, nothing less, than keeping track of each book I read. Chronologically, each book and it’s author are listed each [...]