This is what I wrote this month for Front Porch. The horrors . . . .er I mean the benefits of grandchildren. Linley has come to stay. And her being here is meant to be good for me. Let me explain. Linley is my nine-week-old granddaughter. She is staying in our guest cottage as a…
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Bat-Shit Crazy Conspirators
This was the column I wrote for the Free Lance-Star on Sunday November 29th - except my opening paragraph said the guy thinking poison gas was being pumped over the fence by the neighbor was "bat-shit crazy." But I guess we have to respect the sensitivity of the FLS readers. I had a patient once.…
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Letting “Nature Take It’s Course” Is Not So Easy
I wrote this a few months back for the Fredericksburg news publication ' Front Porch' Every couple of months for the last couple of years, a group of mostly elderly Unitarians gather around the board room table in the Moncure Conway room at the Unitarian Fellowship building in Fredericksburg and talk about how they’re going…
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The Health Hazards of Being Poor
This was last months column from The Free Lance-Star. At the risk of being a bit esoteric, for a variety of reasons I am focused on health and social inequities in the US. I’m talking about what the American Public Health Association defines as “a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social, economic,…
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