On this date in 2003 I had my second kidney transplant. The first one failed earlier that year. Unlike the first time, the second one…
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When I had the kidney/pancreas transplant, the kidney was slow to start working so I had to have hemodialysis treatments at the hospital until it…
It’s Easter and I keep going back in my mind to 15 years ago. Here’s an excerpt from What Didn’t Kill Me Made Me Stronger…
The world didn’t end in 2012, but it left many of us in a different situation than when the year began. That’s how it was…
Thanks to Facebook I was invited to the 30 year reunion for the class I went to school with, but didn’t graduate with. Midway through…
Friday, my parents and I get up before dawn and drive to Oklahoma City. For the first time ever, I hope I’m having a rejection…
Thursday morning, the conference starts. There are a whole lot of people. I sit next to a spirited, outgoing woman in her 50s who is…
This coming weekend, I’ll be competing in a speech competition. I’ve given this particular speech twice already, with some refinement between the first and second…
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…
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…