Articles tagged with: Health
A Rousing Chorus of STFU!
It all started about a month ago with pain, so I finally called the doctor. I went for a check-up. ‘Signs of an infection, probably related to my sinuses’ so she gave me a script for antibiotics. Wait. I was already on my way home with the scripts and feeling that dull pain again, under my …
Interview with Patch Adams, Part Two
I think this e.e. cummings poem is true for friend and lover:
i carry your heart with me (i carry it
in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate(for your are my fate, my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it’s …
Interview with Dr. Patch Adams, Part One
In honor of International Day of Compassion for Patch Adams on May 15th 2011, which is sponsored by BlogCatalog and Bloggers Unite, we present this interview with Dr. Patch Adams. The effort here is that we want bloggers to unite and support Patch to build the Institute of his dreams.
The California “Pot” Debate
The economic law of “Supply and Demand” tells us that just about every commodity has a market price, which is determined by how much demand there is for a given supply of goods or services. This law also holds true for marijuana. Just ask the folks in California, who are giving serious consideration to the legalization and, of course, taxation …
Survival of the Unlovely
Through my childhood years, both parents became alcoholics and abusive to me verbally and physically. By default, I became their caretaker and my brother’s. “They give us crumbs for love,” my brother would say, and I would hug him through his stuttering speech brought about by the trauma of parents in the bottle.
How Many Tours For Our Soldiers?
Yesterday one of our soldiers who was being treated for stress, entered the very clinic where he had been seen. He shot and killed five fellow soldiers while wounding three others. Sergeant John Russell was on his third tour of duty in Iraq and attempting to deal with the stress of being in this war, as well as the stress …
War and PTSD
Years ago I had a friend whom I will call Sam. He had been a Marine in Viet Nam and suffered Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. His conversations threw me back into the clutches of a time which stirred a caldron of emotions in me. Having come of age in the sixties, I thought I had developed a perspective of that …
