Daybreak arrives before the rooster crows; Coffee brews though he will not drink any this morning. Today he will drive to hospital to get blood drawn, Be CT scanned and wait for results in a doctor’s waiting room, Daydreaming of a trip to the Italian coast. She has never gone; he has not been in [...]
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CT Scan Day
Posted in Poetry, tagged CT scan, hospital, Italian coast, travel on December 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Some Brothers Get All the Bad Breaks
Posted in Brief Commentaries, Health, People, Writing, tagged bad luck, brother, damaged heart, diabetes, high cholesterol, hospital, leg amputation on December 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My brother years ago had his left leg amputated after breaking it in a freak fall at the airport. He suffers from asthma and taking medications to keep him out of hospitals has been a lifelong cross to bear, and the medicines he needs to take have not done his brittle bones much good. Among [...]
Is Christmas Over Yet?
Posted in Writing, tagged biblical scholars, birth of jesus, Christmas, christmas music, domestic violence, happy holidays on December 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Christmas: It starts in November and lasts until December 25. All of these festivities are to celebrate the birth of Jesus—except that according to biblical scholars, Jesus wasn’t born in December. Some time in the spring was the most likely season in which Jesus was born. But due to a compromise between Church and pagans, [...]
Community Meeting Questioning
Posted in Poetry, tagged brain, community meeting, God, religion, universe on December 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Our Brain Must Speak We hold back our tongues until our brain Cannot hold its breath any longer. It grows impatient, pulls on reins, until It forces its master to let it speak freely, Speak hard words it cannot take back, That questions the presence of God In the vastness of an expanding universe. “Where is [...]
Lots of Room for Waiting at the Hospital
Posted in Brief Commentaries, Health, Writing, tagged asthma, Dallas, death, knee replacement, Methodist Hospital of Surgery, surgery on December 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Jim is having a knee replaced on his good knee. The other leg was amputated at the knee years ago when he fell and broke his leg in half. A freak accident, it seemed. Jim has many health problem, including a longtime battle with asthma, which has landed him in the hospital many times. COPD [...]
Research at the U
Posted in Brief Commentaries, Education, Writing, tagged college, final exam week, instructor, library, novel, reference librarian, SMU, university on December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today I went to the university, the one whose football coach nearly resigned, to do some research for the novel I’m writing. There were a lot of student at the U studying for finals next week. The semester is almost over for them except for all the coffee they will drink and the cramming that [...]
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Life in 500 years: Will it be like now?
Posted in Brief Commentaries, People, Society, tagged Five hundred years from now, football, future, houses, life, vehicles, wars on December 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I often think about how life would be in 500 years. In a way I wish I had been born in 500 years. Who knows maybe I, or someone like me, will be around in 500 years. That is a long time. The progress we have achieved on earth has taken about 300 years. Because [...]
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