What is the most tired you have ever been? I guess the winner in my life has to be a night on call at the hospital, not one in particular, but any one of the many all-nighters that I have pulled through the years. I have decided that I am still “the man” when it comes to running to the hospital at 2AM, but if I get more than one call a night then I am toast. Continue reading
Tag Archives: grief
Tempus Neminem Manet
Last week Dianna and I were channel surfing and stopped to watch Star Trek Generations, a movie that I have seen about five times, maybe more. Now I know what you are thinking; I was the one channel surfing as it is a documented fact that channel surfing is a genetically transmitted and exclusively male trait, like male patterned baldness or being skilled at taking out the trash. Continue reading
The Drawer
OK, let’s get this out of the way, a number of people are telling me that they have seen the ad in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette of my upcoming speech on humor and health for the Active Living program at Baptist Health. It has run in the paper under the title “Chuckle Therapy,” and that is bothersome to me on several levels. Continue reading
All About Eve
People at the hospital are always asking my opinion about things such as current events, and fortunately for them I almost always have an opinion to offer. Though I have learned the fine art of diplomacy along with fine tuning my ability to read people like a book, I am sometimes guarded in my answers. They say of course you shouldn’t speak of politics or religion in mixed company, but since religion is my business I try to make it everyone else’s business as well. Continue reading