What I Believe: Manifesto
I haven’t gotten here because I’m an ideologue.
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What I Believe, Part III: The Roadmap
Three core values inform everything I believe.
Read moreWhat I Believe, Part II: The Manifesto
Three core values inform everything I believe.
Read moreI Hope Kanye West Gets Help
I’ve had a couple brushes with bipolar folks – one of them terrifying enough that I started carrying a gun out of fear for my well-being – and I can’t even begin to imagine what it would be like living with it.
Read moreDonald Trump Belongs on Mt. Rushmore
Let’s have a look at the current residents of South Dakota’s most famous mountain. The first was a rich white guy who owned more than 100 slaves, and wasn’t known as the best master, at that. The second guy – also wealthy – owned more than 700 slaves during his life. The third guy didn’t own slaves, but had this
Read moreHow Many Dollars Is a Life Worth (and Why Did We Choose This)?
Our desperation is no accident. Desperation is good for business. Colorado reopened for business yesterday. There were precautions galore, like these posted on the website of one of our favorite local restaurants: You must wear a mask or face covering until drinks and food arrive and while you are moving about the restaurant and bar Practice social distancing by staying
Read moreFor COVID-19, America is Home
As any number of Facebook posts and memes have pointed out in recent weeks, we don’t wear masks to protect ourselves, we wear them to protect others. Our homemade cloth masks don’t do a great job of keeping the virus out, but they’re fairly effective at keeping it in. In other words, minimizing the spread of Coronavirus depends on concern
Read moreIf nurses are essential why are they being treated this way?
We’ve heard a lot lately about how America is finally learning who’s really essential now that we’re deep in a real crisis. I even chipped in. But are we treating our essential workers with the care and respect we should be? I have a good friend who works in an emergency department in a mid-sized Midwestern city hospital as well
Read moreHow Are We Making History Today?
The COVID-19 pandemic is the defining moment of our generation. The last global crisis of this magnitude was World War II, and with any luck we won’t see anything this dire again for decades. That’s probably wishful thinking, for a variety of reasons (climate, for instance), but we can hope. We’re living in History – with a capital H.As in,
Read moreI’M NOT DRUNK!
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Read moreThe hope interval: what is happiness?
I have launched myself headlong into the hope interval. As always, the cynic in me is now at war with the romantic.
Read moreAtaxia Research Fund launches: aims to support Spinocerebellar Ataxia Research
The Fund strongly supports those working toward cures for major diseases, but we feel those living with, and dying from, SCA also deserve hope for a cure.
Read moreKeep your head up
No matter how hard the world tries to make you look down, the view is better with your head up.
Read moreIt’s International Ataxia Awareness Day. Here’s why I care.
For those with rare diseases, awareness is hope.
Read moreHow many drugs are you taking that you don’t even know about? (Hint: a lot.)
Antibiotics, antidepressants, blood thinners, ACE inhibitors, calcium-channel blockers, digoxin, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, painkillers, anti-seizure drugs, cholesterol drugs, diabetes drugs and more – it’s all in your drinking water. Here are five steps to help clean it up. We’ve all read and heard a great deal about pollution in our society – carbon emissions in our air, toxic chemical dumping poisoning
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