At least several times during the night I woke up with pounding pain in my head. This wasn’t the best way to start off the week but I allowed myself to continue falling back asleep and waking up every now and again. This morning, however, on my way to the office I decided that today was going to be an awesome day. Why was it going to be an awesome day? Because I decided it was going to be an awesome day.
We are all disposable. The longer we live, the closer we move to the trash bin.
As we age, and become less than we were, technology strives to keep us alive, to help the heart keep pumping and to keep the skeletal architecture of us strong and the impulse of our muscle twitching.
While weight seems to be the principle thing people want to lose when they go on diets at the beginning of the year – not that everyone knows what they need to know about making resolutions stick – (that’s okay) – there are plenty of diets that have nothing to do with physical weight that people try and tackle. Not all of them are as well known as others. Let’s look at a few and maybe pick one for ourselves, shall we?
Because of our nature as selfish, yet cogent, beings — we fail to realize how hard the world spins while we are sleeping.
We miss so much with our eyes closed and minds dreaming.
I am always fascinated how we choose to remember things and events in our lives as well as how involuntary memories are pressed within us.
Memory sustains us while emotion destroys us. Do we choose our memories or do they choose us?
I think I can pinpoint the moment the madness began. It was about six or seven years ago in my mother’s family room, and I was watching an episode of Ally McBeal. It was the episode where Ally was freaking out because she was turning thirty and she was really upset because she felt like she hadn’t accomplished a lot of the goals she had set for herself at that age.
Have you met a person who has given up on life and is just marking time until their death? They are joyless, without light and come across as bumps of flesh and bone.
I’m not talking about the sick or the elderly. I’m talking about the ordinary person who just walks through life with no hope except that it will all end soon.
Continue reading → Graves for the Living; Lives for the Dead
This scenario is made up of two parts. 
Please write your answer for Part A before you answer Part B and when you comment, please break up your answer into Part A and Part B.
PART A:
You are the head of a public health clinic in the urban core. An hour ago a toxic biological agent was seeded across the city by a low-flying crop-duster airplane.
The bio-agent is fast-acting and severely incapacitates in 90 minutes and kills in three hours. Everyone in the city is infected. Most are already dying in the streets as they choke to breathe in their mission to find help.
Continue reading → Urban Bioterrorism Attack: You Pick the Living
There is a fine line between doing something right and just doing something. The bright line between those two efforts is defined by: The intention to add Art to the job.
When we first moved to Washington, D.C. from Nebraska we lived on Capitol Hill near the Eastern Market Metro train stop. Former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill lived two houses up the street from us on Independence Avenue SE.
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