Recommendations December 2020
TV: Vow, on HBO: If after the election you are bewildered by the devotion of Trump followers who don’t seem to accept reality, consider...
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Dec 3, 20209 min read
Transient Global Amnesia
Transient Global Amnesia In my Family Practice, once in a while, I would hear an interesting story related to a transient, hours-long...
Dec 3, 20209 min read
BREATH
Breath James Nestor There are a number of one-word titled books: Salt, Oak, Bourbon. These are all interesting and worthy reads. Breath...
Nov 3, 20201 min read
Recommendations, November 2020
Netflix: My Octopus Teacher---as a biologist, this was fascinating and the free diving off of South Africa was a visual feast. The story...
Nov 3, 202015 min read
Randy's First Malpractice Suit
Randy’s First Malpractice Lawsuit I had three serious malpractice “events” in my career. This is the first. The course load for the first...
Nov 3, 202010 min read
Justice Holmes and the lessons learned
There are many reasons to cut back on watching the national news. One of the issues these last months is the recent nomination to the...
Oct 3, 20202 min read
Recommendations October 2020
Music: William Shatner collaborates with Canned Heat and does a version of "Let's Work Together." As a child of the 60's, this...
Oct 3, 202011 min read
The Lockup Unit
Borrowing from A Clockwork Orange, he had used scissors to cut away the fabric over each breast as well.
Oct 3, 202012 min read
Book Review: The Great Pretender
THE GREAT PRETENDER by Susannah Catalan The history of psychiatry is a minefield—Edward Shorter. Beware of the Shrapnel!—Susannah Catalan...
Sep 4, 20202 min read
Recommendations September, 2020
Recommended books: Lies My Teacher Told Me, by Loewe: published in 1994, he looks at 10 commonly used high school US History Texts and...
Sep 4, 202014 min read
My Mission to Palenque
PALENQUE Years ago, when getting warmed up in training sessions with fellow administrators, we might get asked a question, like, “Tell us...
Sep 4, 202010 min read
Why Do We Irritate the Ones we Love?
Why DO we Irritate the Ones we Love? From a workbook (I have since lost it and don’t have the author’s name) I picked up at a psychology...
Aug 7, 20203 min read
DARBY'S CORNER
ADVOCACY FROM MY LOVELY DAUGHTER, DARBY, WHO LIVES IN ATLANTA I’ve always been a curious person, an information seeker. I like to read,...
Aug 7, 20202 min read
AUGUST RECOMMENDATIONS
RECOMMENDATIONS Podcasts of choice this month 1) Radiolab: Invisible Allies—speaks to some interesting Covid news 2) Freakanomics Radio:...
Aug 7, 202010 min read
FOOTBALL
FOOTBALL I read about World War II over and over; Kernie asks, “did the ending change?” It does not — and I can’t wait to read yet...
Aug 7, 20207 min read
The Trouble with Tom
THE TROUBLE WITH TOM PAUL COLLINS In the early 1980’s I had the opportunity, for the first time in years, to read for pleasure in volume....
Jul 9, 20201 min read
Music Compilation: War Music
I build playlists that can run strange. I have for exercise, 60's music, alternative, alternative country, and Celtic (for St Patrick's...
Jul 9, 20200 min read
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Overripe
Book Review/thoughts: Overripe Economy by Alan Nasser—-Mr. Nasser is a political economist at the local State University, Evergreen...
Jul 9, 20206 min read
My Last Delivery
My last delivery Olympia Washington has a wonderful summer tradition: Music at the Park. Just West of the first State Capital, an...
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