I have received many lovely notes, emails, and face to face sentiments, which are greatly appreciated by everyone in my family. My good friend all-the-way-back-to-college Dennis Cannon sent me an email in which he said “I’d like to call it an adventure, because I think you kind of see it as a unique challenge. Like … Read more
My friend Ellen Mullin gave me a book by Wayne Dyer entitled The Power of Intention. I had vaguely heard of Dyer – he is a “self-development” or human development guru. He has a psychology doctorate and has written a bundle of books, the best-known early one being Your Erroneous Zones. I like to read … Read more
I started this webjournal exactly four months ago, on September 8th. After about a month I migrated the journal from it’s original home on blogspot over to typepad. Or rather my brother Phil did. I complained to him about something on blogspot, and he just moved everything over to here (and paid the first year … Read more
Went to the gym in the early afternoon, and when I finished on the bike, I “hit the weights.” However the chest pressing machine I like to use was in use, so I decided to do some bench presses – specifically the sets and reps I used to do as a strength test. I stopped … Read more
Is that you then have trouble getting to sleep. I just spent from 9:30 to 10:30 in the gym and it’s great from the point of view of not too many people there. But now I’m not going to be able to get to sleep before 1:30 or 2. Not good. I only go to … Read more
On January 2nd we had a very pleasant afternoon dinner with our friends Damian and Jeanne Marie Gagnon, and three of their four children (Nate, Philip and Kathleen; Monica had gone back to college). Here’s a picture of Joe and Brigid (note social lubricant in front of Brigid.) And Jeanne Marie. Perhaps listening to Brigid?
Both the NY Times Gain Reported in Combating Ovary Cancer – New York Times and the Washington Post Abdominal Treatment For Cancer Promising report this morning on a chemotherapy regimen that the National Cancer Institute is recommending. To quote from the Washington Post article: "…the National Cancer Institute is urging doctors to begin using the … Read more
Below is an excellent web posting. Coincidentally, since I am bashing the NY Times (see the post below this one) the author uses columns by NYT columnist Paul Krugman as his foil to highlight the Canadian shortcomings. The issue of how to provide and pay for healthcare is certainly a difficult one. Part of my … Read more
This takes the cake. I took it off the Donald Luskin website, which you can visit yourself by hitting the link on the left, "The conspiracy to keep you poor and stupid." The Hypocrisy of astonishing. THIS IS RICH… From TimesWatch: Business reporter/columnist Gretchen Morgenson loves corporate scandals, and she rounds up the year’s greatest … Read more
I spent more than a few days working through my resolutions and besides the obvious ones (be nicer to the wife, etc), one kept coming back to the front of my thoughts. I need to work with Tim to get him to really enjoy reading. He’s a good reader, but he doesn’t enjoy it. Joe … Read more