"Imagine there's no heaven. . ."
posted over 2 years ago, updated about 1 month later | 0 comments
Twenty-six years ago today, I was working as a desk clerk/night auditor in a Holiday Inn in Meriden, Connecticut. I think it must have been somewhere around 8 or 9 o'clock when I got a telephone call from one our bellmen. He sounded as if he'd jus...
Thoughts on Thanksgiving
posted over 3 years ago, updated 5 days later | 1 comment
I've had something to be truly thankful for this year; I survived cancer. But, beyond that, I got myself a new life a bunch of years ago when I left New England to move to Ohio. I found a new wife, a new home, and a new family. For all of these I ...
43 Years ago today
posted over 3 years ago, updated 2 minutes later | 0 comments
A while back I posted a bunch of questions here, one of them being, "Where were you when JFK was shot?"
To be completely honest, I don't know where I was; I had only just turned seven a little over a week before the event, and I didn't really ha...
To be completely honest, I don't know where I was; I had only just turned seven a little over a week before the event, and I didn't really ha...
Ch-ch-ch-changes, Part II
posted over 3 years ago, updated 2 days later | 2 comments
On May 5th I went under the knife for the third and (I hope) last time. When I saw my surgeon in ICU two (three?) days later he told me that he found "the world's worst ulcer." Half of my esophagus was gone, along with about a third of my stomach....
Ch-ch-ch-changes...
posted over 3 years ago, updated 8 minutes later | 0 comments
I reached a milestone today; I'm officially an old fart. Today, you see, is my 50th birthday.
I almost didn't make it this far. Just fourteen months ago I was diagnosed with stage IV esophageal cancer. Seems I had a large tumor located at the jun...
I almost didn't make it this far. Just fourteen months ago I was diagnosed with stage IV esophageal cancer. Seems I had a large tumor located at the jun...
