I know that we’re both tired of being okay with things that aren’t okay.

Any COVID vaccine should be tested on politicians first. If they survive, the vaccine is safe. If not, the country is safe.

Only a straight, unsuspected punch to the gut could be any worse than walking into our house and looking at the local television news for the first time in weeks, and then realize they’re discussing the death of a friend. That’s exactly how I learned of my long-time friend Brent Boynton’s passing. They say he…

My Cousin Elmo says, “Nothing says ‘I care’ like wearing your mask to the store then buying up all the toilet paper.”

“Christ, Doc,” the young medical lieutenant said to me, as he looked a the ward of 20 patients, “I thought we had eradicated Cholera.” I said nothing since he was the M.D. and I was simply a Hospital Corpsman.

the dog wants a walk no energy to put on shoes we are barefoot

laying on my bed with thoughts of dying no… not suicide simply dying giving my spirit back to God i have company my dog he lays next to me he does not move perhaps he thinks of dying as well new restrictions but nothing works liberty failed pandemic abundance of caution sheep wolves shepherds which…

Clawing at the air and the belief that I am suffocating, that’s how this particular night-terror ends. And that’s how it ended last night, too. Neck wounds are a tricky thing, and it was obvious that he had a neck wound. He was sitting against a shattered tree stump when I heard the shout, “Doc,…

If 2020 were a song, it would be sung by Yoko Ono.

“Did you hear about the man who dreamed he was eating a big marshmallow?” “No, what happened?” “He woke up and his pillow was gone.” That’s a joke I learned when I was nine-years-old. Funny then, corny now, but still enjoyable in its simplicity. Fifty-one years later, I have a rather risque return on this…