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I’m back from Southern Ohio — land of no internet or cell phone coverage. My mother perked up quite a bit when we arrived and is now released, at home, and doing better. It turned out that I underestimated the time we needed for the trip. It took us 7 hours each way due to [...]

I’m going to be out of blogging range until Friday night or Saturday morning. I’m headed down to southern Ohio to visit my mother. She has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and has been hospitalized after suffering a respiratory infection for the last month and a half. I think she’ll be fine, but it’s time [...]

Last night Kami and I watched the excellent "The Devil Came on Horseback." A former Marine Captain joined the ceasefire observer team in Sudan back in 2004 and witnessed the genocide in Darfur for 6 months before coming home. Please watch this film. It left Kami and me in tears as we saw him show [...]

Chapter 21 is up at thenovelproject.patrickmead.net but I must warn you — it’s a doozy. 
We had Steve Diggs at Rochester this last week to do his NO DEBT, NO SWEAT seminar. I must confess that I wasn’t looking forward to it. I’ve never known how to manage money. My dad never let us have an [...]

Since there has been such a response over this Alzheimer’s thread, I will keep it alive for another blog or two and then get back to the blinding mediocrity that has previously characterized it…
People want to know "why"? When they have a flat, get a cold, lose a job, see someone leave their church… they [...]

There are several risk factors that we look for when we weigh an individual’s chances for getting Alzheimer’s. There is that pesky gene (APOe-E4) that shows up in most Alzheimer’s, but not all, but we have come to believe that, while genes play a major role, there are several genes at play, not one, and [...]

[NOTE: your prayers worked! My trip down to Columbus, OH and back was much easier than I had expected -- or than the weather men had predicted. While I'm tired from my trip and sore from my fall, I am doing quite well. Thank you!]
When people find out that I teach courses on the latest [...]

I am, at last, in Columbus. The day didn’t start well. We were told that there would be a period of freezing rain that would coat our 14+ inches of snow. Later would come a raft of warm air (about 42 degrees) and rain followed by — and this will shock you — falling temps [...]

I am writing furiously today and tomorrow to get ready for an all day seminar I’m giving on Alzheimer’s at The Ohio State University Monday. I am scheduled to drive down after our worship services Sunday morning, check into the OSU hotel (very nice) and get started at 8:30 Monday morning. We spend the first [...]

I know, I know, the official name for last night is "Emerging Artists Night" and, in the main, it is… but then they tacked me on at the end. I might be "submerging" but no way am I "emerging".
The evening started great with the always fantastic Carmen Paradise and her fiance — known as The [...]