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Ovation: For Me, For You, For Later
Many years ago, back in my hometown church, I was involved with something called “Children’s Moments”. There were several occasions when a friend and I would use puppets to teach a lesson to the...
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Diatribe: Toning Sneakers for Little Girls are a Bad Idea.
I remember a time when children got exercise simply by being children. They would play outside, play in the bedroom, play in the basement, and play at the park. From the first through the twelfth...
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Diatribe: Do Doctors Really Think That Thin People Are The Only Healthy People?
I’m overweight and I have been all my life. I have an insatiable sweet tooth and frequent cravings for “something crunchy”. Over the years I’ve gained and lost hundreds of pounds using various diets...
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Ovation: Go To Your Happy Place!
Have you ever been told to go to your “Happy Place”? Your Happy Place refers to a state of mind, a tranquil place you can visualize that calms you down and allows you to feel balanced. It is a mental...
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Ovation: What Are YOU Grateful For This Thanksgiving?
This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for my family. This year, I get to spend time with relatives that I don’t get to see often enough. Fortunately, my family is very close in spirit and there is so much...
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Diatribe: Occupational Hazards.
Recently, a reader took issue with an earlier blog post that criticized the practice of “automatic gratuity” on restaurant bills. The reader, clearly a server, argued that the practice was in the best...
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Diatribe: Parents Must Be Responsible For The Actions And Safety Of Their...
Last Wednesday, a 3-year-old girl was thrown from a carnival ride at a Texas rodeo and suffered minor injuries. The toddler was simply too small to safely enjoy the ride and she slipped through the...
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Ovation: The Bugs Are Going To Be Bad This Summer And The Birds In New York...
We didn’t get a hard freeze last winter and there has been an awful lot of rain so far this spring. It stands to reason that the bugs are going to be bad this summer, spreading illness and discomfort...
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Diatribe: Drinking Hand Sanitizer Leads To Alcohol Poisoning.
I use a lot of hand sanitizer and I enjoy an occasional cocktail but this is ridiculous. Six California teenagers have recently been hospitalized in separate incidents where each was diagnosed with...
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Diatribe: Is “Deserve To Die” Ad Campaign Offensive Or Just Stupid?
At one point in my life, I thought about a career in advertising. To be successful in the field, one must be truly creative and innovative. Marketing campaigns come and go and each seems to have a...
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Diatribe: Not Enough Family Restrooms.
Public restrooms can be quite frightening places. Parents alone with a child or children often face anxiety when it’s time for a bathroom break. For example, more often than ever, fathers are...
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Diatribe: New York City’s Sugary Drink Ban.
Last Thursday, in a move meant to combat obesity and encourage residents to live healthier lifestyles, New York City’s Board of Health voted to ban the sale of sugary drinks in containers larger than...
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Diatribe: Faith Healers Let A Second Child Die.
I know some people with a really sick cat. They’re a newlywed couple without children and this tired, old cat is the center of their world. The cat is old. Really old. And it’s been diagnosed with...
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Diatriabe: Oculolinctus aka “Eyeball Licking” Is Causing Pinkeye In Japanese...
Many years ago I was diagnosed with pinkeye, an inflammation of the outermost layer of the eye and the inner surface of the eyelids. I don’t know how I got it but it was easily recognized and treated...
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Diatribe: A Squirrel With The Plague.
Something’s been getting into our trash cans at night. We’ve lived in our house for twelve years and the same two trash cans have been stored in the exact some spot all along. Nothing has ever...
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Diatribe: “Saxophone Lung”.
One of the elective courses that I took in college, believe it or not, was a class in musical instrument repair. There was a gentleman who ran a shop across town from campus who was a wizard when it...
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Diatribe: Holiday Decorating Injuries.
Our house is finally decorated for the holidays. This year, because there are fewer days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, we assembled and decorated our Christmas tree before leaving town for the...
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Ovation: It’s A Good Day When Your Eyeglasses Deflect Stray Bullets.
For quite some time, I used reading glasses for “close work”. I kept a pair in my car, at my desk, in the kitchen, by the sofa and even in the bathroom … everywhere that I thought I might need to...
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Ovation: Daylight Savings Time.
Daylight Savings Time started this morning. There are many who think the practice of changing our clocks should be done away with. In fact there proposed laws working their way through legislation in...
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Ovation: The Five-Second Rule Proves To Be True!
We’ve all done it. We’ve dropped a piece of food on the floor, quickly picked it up, looked around to see if anyone had noticed, brushed it off and ate it anyway. The five-second rule, a bit of...
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