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I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot. – Steven Wright At the marijuana dispensary, the second thing they ask you is your age. “Three score and eighteen,” I offer brightly. “The first half of the last century.” Seventy-eight. 78. Nine…
What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future – Agnes M. Pahro. Note to self – My second and perhaps last Xmas missive. Based on those I have received over the years from the likes of Jack & Donna Scaff, Jose Cruz, JOJ, Rick & Charlotte…
“Some of you are thinking that you won’t fight. Others, that you can’t fight. They all say that, until they’re out there.” – Proximo Until they’re out there. I’m out there. I take life carefully Friday through Sunday, just in case the unforeseen I am constantly foreseeing happens and I require medical attention. Health Care…
Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time. – John C. Maxwell On Nov 12, 2024, at 10:08 AM, Stephen DeBoer wrote: Greetings fellow high mileage running enthusiasts: I am going to make an effort to compile that 100K list I mentioned doing last winter. I have come up…
“The thing I had to keep telling myself was that I could be bleeding from the eyes and I would not drop out.” Keith Brantly just looks youthful. He ran his first road race in 1978. He was sixteen. And his career ended more recently than most of the early stalwarts of the sport. Heck,…
“I will watch those that I used to be. The stallions that dominate the race and pummel it into submission. I will cheer them for their abilities in a sport that has given me sustenance. Helped me make sense of myself. And there is always the future. The next year. The next decade. I hope…
“Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.” —W.J. Cameron A dozen years ago, for the ThanksGiving holiday, my wife and I drove to Osprey, a monied suburb south of Sarasota, to share an important holiday dinner with my mother. I was raised to believe this is how good people celebrate. Mom lived in a…
Whole-Person Care: You’re more than flesh and bone. That’s why we’re here to support all of you, from everyday wellness and preventive health care to lifesaving diagnostic services and innovative medical treatments in cancer, cardiac care, orthopedics and more. Just renewed our Medicare Advantage Humana Gold Plus, mostly because of one Physician’s Assistant. He alone…
When asking who means the most to us, we often find it is those who, instead of giving advice, choose rather to share our pain. The friend who is silent in a moment of despair, who stays with us in an hour of grief & bereavement, who faces with us the reality of our powerlessness,…
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. – Donald Trump 132 years ago today, the Allegheny Athletic Association defeated the Pittsburgh Athletic Club with the help of William “Pudge” Heffelfinger, the first person ever paid to play football. Heffelfinger, the son of…