“…there is a crack, a crack in everything- that’s how the light gets in…” Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen Man I’m glad my dad and big brother gave me the chance to embrace sports. And last week, Saturday in Seattle was the medicine that made a difference for my Tuesday’s wounded soul. So I’ve lived through a…
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Continuing Care
Categories: Politics and Government
This is my final commentary on the election. I need some closure. I’m done with all things political until 2018. So this morning I woke up about 3:30AM; couldn’t sleep. It felt like there had been a death in the family…and yeah, the news was pretty bad. After a year or so on life support,…
Winners Never Quit
Categories: Sports
“Cleveland vs. the Cubs. Game 7. Rain delay in the 10th inning at midnight. 160-something years of combined losing. Kinda poetic.” So it was Game Seven and just like with Presidential debate #2, I was seated at the bar within the friendly confines of my fave neighborhood Italian joint. And this time around, the Margherita…
Christopher
Categories: Health and Fitness
I think the Universe really does prefer conversation to criticism and being interested rather than being interesting. So going on two years ago, I had some major decisions to make. I was basically saying goodbye to my family. I sold the Von Bulow hacienda as well as my aunt’s home/Blandino family reunion center and, just…
Vivian
Categories: Health and Fitness
And this time, my team and I had the chance to do something that made a difference for someone we love. So I was only 12-years old the first time I realized what seemed like a little thing to me could make a major difference for someone I loved. I was almost straight outa the…
A Gold Medal Day And Memory
Categories: Health and Fitness
So it isn’t every day I get to serve an Olympic Gold Medalist; there just aren’t that many of ‘em passing through Temple City these days. So it isn’t every day I get to serve an Olympic Gold Medalist; there just aren’t that many of ‘em passing through Temple City these days. And on a…
Imagine
Categories: Local Voices
A piece I wrote fifteen years ago today. This morning I got to work, put on the TV in the waiting room, and sat down with my coffee. And I knew for sure it was going to be one of those unbelievable, unacceptable days that test your faith, confidence, and ability to resist hate. There…
Dentist Group Therapy
Categories: Health and Fitness
The good news is: the latest reports say lawyers have reeled us (dentists) in and surged into the self-destructive lead. Don’t know how you guys would would handle it, but sometimes I’m taken slightly aback when the Labor Day barbecue conversation zooms in on my job…and friends and family start talkin’ about suicide. The “dentists…
REM Experiences Of The Dental Kind
Categories: Health and Fitness
And I’m really sympathetic because I have nightmares too. But my sleep scares do not involve losing mass numbers of teeth. So lately, not a week goes by when a patient doesn’t check-in, take a seat, ask if I’m really doing okay, and then tell me about one particular scary dental nightmare they’ve been having.…
F-Word Declared Obsolete By Brits…But There’s More
Categories: Health and Fitness
No flossing in Great Britain, just Bubba smiles from the Royals and Show Biz types. So imagine my shock and awe on learning that, based on conclusions put forth by England Public Health, U.S. health officials have dropped the use of dental floss as a recommended approach to oral hygiene. And I hate profiling white…
