Swimming Underwater

My mother lived to be over 100, my father dead of a heart attack at 58. I am balanced somewhere between the two, 14 years older than my fat...

After some dental surgery and catching shingles and the pain of that—truly as all say the horrible pain like nothing else—and with her hist...

   Let’s talk colonoscopy.    It’s a language most people don’t speak, especially men.    Three reasons according to me: the self-cons...

Everything else on the 27th day of January in 1945 paled (as it should) next to the Russian troops throwing open the gates of Auschwitz-Bi...

It only seems like slow motion when tumbling to the ground because I’m aware of every step. The first step on Colorado River rocks behind...

One year ago today . . . After my father died of a heart attack at the age of 58, I had experienced sympathetic chest pains for mo...

In the old days, fathers were not allowed in the delivery rooms. Admittance for them beyond a series of swinging doors even in the early...