Taxes

Yes, another focking post about taxes. I’ve been working on mine for some weeks. It isn’t that they are so complicated but rather that the […]

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Valentine’s Food Porn

I had contemplated a surf ‘n turf of Filet Mignon and Lobster for dinner, but when I arrived at the grocery store, I realized that […]

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Corvids

Caw, caw, caw. They’re big. They’re black. They’re raucous. We don’t have resident crows in my neighborhood – maybe not even in the city, but […]

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The Big Game

I watched my favorite weekend news programs today, and then I watched the last bit of the Super Bowl. I’m not much of a sports […]

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Turbid Liquids

If you are a clinical person of almost any stripe, “Clear Liquids,” has a specific meaning for you. It’s a pre-surgical dietary prescription, or one […]

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This Week in COVID

It’s Week 99 of the COVID Apocalypse, and Dr. Klotman gives us an update on the worldwide distribution of COVID, and a review of new […]

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The Concierge

It was 1983 or maybe 84. Susan and I had decided to take a brief escape from our medical work responsibilities to visit Mexico City. […]

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Lunacy

This evening, Susan and I sat on the front deck sipping some wine under the First Quarter moon. We were moon-bathing. It’s a lot like […]

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Setting the Bar

A former workmate with a background in nursing commented some years ago that, in retirement, we needed to recalibrate what counts as an achievement. It […]

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