Sermon “Am I a waste of a therapist’s time?” 16 Dec 202216 Dec 2022 Reddit is often a scary place, but sometimes there are people and places that make it hugely worthwhile. One of those places is the Multiple Sclerosis subreddit. There's often a…
MS… The Full Catastrophe 31 Oct 202231 Oct 2022 One of my dad's favorite old movies is Zorba the Greek. One of the best quotes from the movie is this: "I'm a man, so I married. Wife, children, house,…
OM E.O.D. 7 Oct 20227 Oct 2022 Back in 2016, when I got told to put my affairs in order (and promptly joined a clinical trial), I set up a folder on my phone to handle the…
OM PRIDE Month 30 May 202130 May 2021 Because PRIDE is in June, I just had to indulge in the "Colors Challenge" out at Vocal Media. I won an "honorable mention" gift from the folks who run the…
Sermon How the US Falls Apart: One Trade at a Time 24 Aug 202024 Aug 2020 Central Virginia is six COVID cases away from losing 80% of its hospital imaging capacity. I wish I didn’t know this. I wish this weren’t true. I wish I were…
MS… Right View 22 Mar 202024 Mar 2020 There are a couple ways to view what's going on right now. One starts funny and ends sad. The other starts sad and ends...okay. And not okay as in "meh."…
Sermon The Devaduta Kingdoms 9 Oct 201921 Oct 2019 Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.…
MS… The Phantom Fourth 7 Jun 20197 Jun 2019 I'm about to test in taekwondo again, another in a long line of tests to (in theory) get me to my first degree black belt. I've already got the belt…
Sermon Sermon on What We Leave Behind 5 Dec 20185 Dec 2018 I'm in some strange mental territory here, so bear with me a while. I hope to make it worth our time. First things first, though--disclaimers. No, I have not received…
Sermon Sermon on Altered States 30 Sep 201815 Mar 2021 The existence of mystical states absolutely overthrows the pretension of non-mystical states to be the sole and ultimate dictators of what we may believe. —William James, The Varieties of Religious…
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