The rain, falling gently, lets an old guy feel lazy without feeling guilty             I’VE BEEN LAZY this week. It’s not for any physical reason. It’s just the rain.             I’ve always liked rain. When I was in college I had an apartment on High Street in Oxford, Ohio. It was above a clothing store and had a…

Thinking about health care and wondering how some folks navigate it all on-line, and what if they don’t? And, of course, who is shut out by cost?             I’m about to head over to Fern Hill Medical Campus to have a couple of needles poked into my spine. Once there they will release something the doctor hopes…

Today, I cannot love my country, not against the background noise of gunfire and the cries of children.                   LITTLE BOYS and girls skip down the street to elementary school, or step off big yellow buses or pile out of mommy vans, lunch boxes. Teen-agers pull into the high school parking lot, compare cars, high-five, check their…

A dove’s call takes me on a journey back to other times and a song…                   THOSE DAMNED DOVES.                   Every morning when I sit out on the patio, surrounded by flowers and in the presence of Buddha, the doves start singing their way into my heart and soul.                    Every mournful note, which, in fact, is a…

Instead of “bad news,” try looking at it this way….                   I WAS WATCHING a TV show with my wife the other night and something caught my ear.                   It was a home improvement show and the project manager was greeting the contractor in a torn-up house. He must have had a sad look on his face.                   “Uh,…

Aches and pains and Mortality, my new roomie…. My body is falling apart.                   That’s not a lament or a whine. It’s a fact.                   It’s been going on for a while but usually an ache or a pain was a one-off. You know, go get it fixed, do some kind of rehab, and then get on…