Today it’s been 10 years since my friend Joe was killed in a motorcycle accident. It’s so hard to believe it’s been an entire decade.…
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Twenty years ago this week, I started a new job in Austin. There was only a 3% vacancy rate on rental property at the time,…
I rarely call much attention to my own birthday, especially since I passed 40 so long ago it’s almost disappeared from my rearview mirror. If…
Most of the hair on my head fell out a couple of weeks after starting chemotherapy. There was a short, thin swath down the middle…
Today marks a noticeable change in seasons in the life of a college town: graduation day. Thousands of (mostly) young, fresh-faced adults will fill the…
It was probably just a miscalculation. It makes more sense than the other explanation for the tardiness of my grand entry–my debut, so to speak.…
I have to laugh out loud sometimes at how Hollywood stumbles across facts like a drunk bull in an antique shop. The latest example is…
There is some confusion, even among medical professionals not directly involved with transplant patients, about the number and location of a typical transplanted kidney. Fewer…
I’m starting to recognize myself in the mirror again. What I see looking back at me is a slimmer version of what I saw last…
People want to be helpful, and I appreciate that. Sometimes, though, I get more help than I want—or need. Case in point: getting in and…