In the U.S.? You have got to be kidding. Possibly with a new president but I will not be holding my breath. Wealthy, established interest groups trump long-term change every time. Even when the writing is on the wall our leaders have found a way to deny, deny, deny. Not so in Holland. The impact of [...]
Archive for January, 2008
It hit close to 40 degrees today after a week of zero. I thought about going to the beach.
In July and Augustof last year I shared some of my favorite rarely used words. Having recently watched the movie version of My Fair Lady I was inspired to do so again. If you are wondering what MFL has to do with words you have not seen the musical or read Pygmalion. Rather than explain [...]
Today I have a seventeen year old. Wow. Normally for me this would be a time for me to think about and wax nostalgically about what he was like at 2 and a half when we met (a cute story to be shared later), the early fatherhood years, watching him grow and how much harder the [...]
A letter to my son. It was a year ago that I had a chance to tell you how much I thought of you at 16. It is now a year later and I find my mind wandering to memories of you and of us, father and son. I wanted to share some stories so they [...]
The sequence of temperature readings as I drove to work this morning.
I visited the NASA website for the first time today. My intent was to check out the pictures of the planet Mercury. The picture above is one of the better ones of Mercury’s craters taken at a distance of about 12,000 miles. ( I wish I had a telephoto lens to match that.) Why explore Mercury? [...]
…to be in pain. That’s the state I’m in and likely to be for at least a night. Some perspective. This is not crushing levels of pain, I wasn’t in a car wreck. This won’t be chronic pain, I know it will go away at some point. We are not talking about pain associated with something life threatening. What [...]
I know many people, including my wife, who seem to not need much sleep. I on the other hand seem to need 7 hours minimum. I rarely get that much. 5-6 hours seem to be the most during the week. I have viewed this as a weakness on my part. I assumed I was in the [...]
Being One of Chicago’s Top Docs Is The Second Best Thing
Posted: January 16, 2008 in Friends, Health, Interesting peopleMy cardiologist has been named by Chicago Magazine as one of Chicago’s top doctors. This is what the magazine had to say about him: GARY PINELESS Coronary artery disease; heart failure. Highland Park. O.K. That doesn’t tell you much. But the selection process was impressive: Chicago’s list of the area’s top doctors was compiled by Castle [...]
