Just got back this evening from a weekend in Boston. An excellent time. Had a good laugh over this t-shirt we spotted at a kiosk outside the Boston Aquarium. That’s Johnny Damon, as he looked back when he played for the Red Sox. Of course now he’s a clean-shaven Yankee, patrolling center field. If you … Read more
We are about to head up to Boston for the weekend. The Novotny’s and Riner’s will be joining us and I am hoping to see people like Mary and Kevin Blake, and John McCarthy. Nothing further on my erstwhile appointment with Dr. Zelenetz yesterday. Spoke to their office twice this AM and they are going … Read more
Went to Sloan this afternoon as scheduled, arriving at 4:50 for the appointment with Dr. Zelenetz. I’d called and was told they were running a little late, so come in at 5:00 rather then 4:45. Had bloodwork and my vital signs were taken – all done by 5:15. At 5:45 the receptionist said "it would … Read more
A caribbean motif tonite (see prior post). I got wind of this book when an excerpt was published in – of all places – the Wall Street Journal. It turns out the author, Christopher John Farley, is an editor at the Journal, which probably explains how it ended up being excerpted there. If you don’t … Read more
Has been caught. This story WFTV.com – News – Record Hammerhead Shark Was Pregnant immediately reminded me of my (true) hammerhead story. Brigid and I were on a north coast of Grand Cayman (shortly before we left the island, in 1981) diving in 95 feet of water with Bob Osterwyk, Paul Sleep, and a lady … Read more
Tomorrow, Thursday, late in the afternoon, I will be seeing Dr. Zelenetz for the first time since I was "returned" to him by the transplant unit. Here’s hoping my white blood cell count is headed toward normal and everything checks out well. I do feel fine!
Had great sessions all this past week in the gym. However my weight does seem to be creeping up! Not what I’d like. I will be seeing Dr. Zelenetz for my first post-stem cell transplant appointment on Thursday. I have been turned back over to the lymphoma department at Sloan Kettering, from the transplant unit. … Read more
Luciano Pavarotti, perhaps the world’s most famous opera singer, has had surgery for pancreatic cancer. Pavarotti Battling Pancreatic Cancer The five year survival rate for this type of cancer is low. "Fortunately, the mass was able to be completely removed at surgery," the singer’s manager, Terri Robson, said in a statement from her London office. … Read more
This book was published in 2003. The author is Stephen Barr, a physicist at the University of Delaware, who has written widely on the confluence of religious belief with modern scientific insights, especially from quantum mechanics and relativity theory. I finished reading this book on the fourth of July, and Barr is very good. It … Read more
Here is a really interesting interview with Professor Robert George of Princeton University, published in the leading evangelical magazine, Christianity Today.The Phone Book Test – Christianity Today Magazine What’s your reading of our culture right now?I’ve argued in my book The Clash of Orthodoxies that the contemporary moment is marked by profound cultural division. We … Read more