"Enjoy every sandwich."--Warren Zevon (2002) "No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main...

I have cancer. I got the diagnosis last week: a stage 3 malignant melanoma on my scalp. I will start immunotherapy tomorrow. My plan is...

Bill Keel was my PhD advisor. He retired from formal teaching at the University of Alabama last year, and his wife Teri asked some of his...

I found this message-in-a-bottle while looking back through some old writing. Seems apropos today. A little less than a year ago, I took...

Leo Graskowiak was my best friend during junior high and high school. We met in gym class, of all places. They were having us run the 50...

I had Covid the last few weeks of March 2020, right at the beginning of the pandemic (early adopter, cannot recommend, 1 out of 5 stars.)...

My mind doesn’t seem to work the way it used to. I had COVID-19 in March 2020, and I have Long Covid. I have some of the myriad of Long...

I said farewell to an old friend today (don’t worry, nobody died.) A local music charity (the Future Arts Foundation,...