Go to it, death-proofers
Donald Trump is out, or nearly. Happy now? I am: I hated his hair color choices. But here's a word [...]
The underground man
Seeking refuge from the bullying perils of adolescence, I often retreated to my outpost on high, the top of a [...]
Present arms!
The approval of effective COVID-19 vaccines in the United States was supposed to herald a massive opening salvo of preventive [...]
Rebecca’s pregnant pause
My daughter Rebecca is waiting for the pregnant pause to give birth. I tell her it's not happening but she's [...]
Don’t call me Trump
During his successful 2016 run for the White House, and well into the early part of his presidency, Donald Trump [...]
How green was my valley
This is a cautionary tale, though it may not seem like one at first. In fact, at first it will [...]
Thoughts on gender
I read little in my teens. Here and there a book about baseball while dabbling in my father's set-aside novels, [...]
M for Moderna
Though drug maker Moderna's announcement of its mRNA-1273 corona virus vaccine came a day after Pfizer made a similar (and [...]
COVID of the mind
The 1989 movie “Field of Dreams” plays out in my home state of Iowa and at the time gave the [...]
The 90 percent solution
A doctor is also a medical scientist. And all scientists need to factor in a healthy dose of skepticism before [...]