Bizarre
Fishy
Friday, April 4th, 2008Los Angeles Times columnist Jonah Goldberg’s April 1 subject struck me at first glance as a possible April Fools’ joke. The column, “Evolution of religious bigotry,” considered “the cowardice and intolerance of slapping a Darwin fish on your car bumper.”
I had already been taken in by a local Christian radio station’s April Fools’ plea for […]
Grin of the Living Dead
Friday, February 8th, 2008I admit it. I’m one of those people who stare closely into a casket when attending a funeral. I’m always looking for that hint of a breath. When I stare hard enough I can just about convince myself I see the tiniest movement, the ghost of a rise and fall in the chest. Doesn’t matter […]
Rock of the Aged
Monday, January 21st, 2008Thursday, December 27, during our family’s Christmas visit to Fort Wayne, Ind., had not yet dawned. But my sleep evaporated around 3 with a pain familiar to a select population of patients who ignore their bodies’ need for adequate hydration.
My right kidney announced its gift of a stone. I began the ordeal of pacing the […]