Of the eight people in the Suburban, I was the only one who was admitted to the ICU. We had gone out to dinner with three other couples...

This is what happens when you cross a Welsh Pony with an Italian Stallion. They make talented, bright, and feisty babies. They were from...

It was the old Pond’s Lodge, long before Carl and RJ resuscitated the place. Patrons ate at one end and drank at the other. The part...

Patrick felt so confident about going forward down the quarter-mile that he decided not to turn around. Instead, he just put the car into...

The all-white, unmarked, Air Egypt Airbus-330-300 flying from Tel Aviv was turning and descending over Cairo, October 1st, 1994, and I...

Back in the day when holding a large church meeting was unlikely to stir up trouble with the government, we could actually go to church....

She winced and sat there shaking her head — staring at me in disbelief. I had just advised my beautiful twelve-year-old granddaughter,...

Jacob, my ten-year-old grandson, is nearly perfect. Several months ago he was helping me clean out my mother-in-law’s garage after she...

CLAUDE AND WILHELM Claude was one of my medical school classmates. He was French and at 6’3” he was larger than life — he usually had a...

The two bikini girls were spitting mad. They had just come up from the beach to the public outdoor shower to clean off the sand and...

The Lincoln Continental Mark IV had been parked on the hospital lawn in a big hurry. The driver’s door was left open and it was clear...

Each day I have to decide if I am an oppressor or a victim. The morning news tells me that, because I'm white, I am an oppressor. The...

When I was born, I was given Hamilton as a middle name and told by my grandmother that I was Scottish. I was given the tartan of Lord...

At age 4, I got mad at my mother, packed up my red wagon, and ran away. Mother often reminded me that I was “her life’s work.” I think...

DOG PEOPLE We are not dog people; we never were and never will be dog people. That is what I told MK every time she insisted on getting a...

Over thirty years ago, Ed Browning, a potato farmer from Osgood, made a small fortune out of a large one that he had inherited. Ed...

“The important thing is the new generation that has been galvanized, and that generation is committed to trying to discover, through the...

The St. Louis Taxicab suddenly parked in the entry to the Barnes Hospital ER, not at the entry, but in the entry. The front tire was...

There are some things they never teach you in medical school. Business sense is something you have to get on your own. As far as I could...

Slugs. You’ve seen them — terrestrial gastropod mollusks, mushy blobs of goo that slime around, eating hostas, strawberries, and...