As I approach an age that is significantly older than dirt, I realized that even though I know more about everything, I actually know a lot less about anything. When I was younger, I thought wisdom would be the reward for staying alive this long. Instead, it feels more like a flickering ...
My wife has a cold. That鈥檚 not normal. Here鈥檚 the worst part, it is a 鈥淣ick cold.鈥� You know, the kind where I usually try to dislodge a lung and crack a few ribs before it finally clears up. But, since this is about me, here鈥檚 where things got miserable. She asked me to go shopping. I ...
There is something quietly powerful that happens 24 hours a day, 365 days a year in your community. Every day, hundreds of people walk through the doors of your local hospital and step into a calling that has defined this community for generations. They show up to take care of their neighbors. ...
This morning, I woke up feeling like I shouldn鈥檛 bother getting out of bed. My brain felt mushy, my motivation level was somewhere south of nowhere, my eyes were heavy, and, well, you get it. Then I read a post by a wonderful physician friend of mine, Dr. Angela LaSalle. When I was ...
My grandmother handed me a nickel, pointed toward the road, and sent me to buy an ice cream cone at a store named Grammy鈥檚. I was 4 1/2 years old. It was a hot, humid summer night, the kind where the porch screen door sticks and even the neighbors鈥� dogs are too tired to bark. The memory ...
One of my education professors built an entire course around one uncomfortable idea: too often, we are not taught how to think. We live 鈥渟timulus-response lives.鈥� He said most people walk into a room, hang their brains on a hook, and don鈥檛 question anything. In retrospect, he might have ...
