At the time of this entry I am two days away from age 67, 32 years of marriage, and now I'm a great-grandfather!!! Since January of 2025, I have been a Corrections Medicine physician. Medical Director at Delaware's largest prison. It is not like being at "OZ" but there are stories that make you think seromone is scripting the insanity. How much time do you have?

Having a good time playing doctor (wouldn't mind being on tv, but, hey, if I had Denzel's chops I would be!). I get to have a 40 hour work week, moonlight on weekends and evenings when I want, and do some procedures without being on call!

Anyway, my training in Chicago, Atlanta, and Baltimore were my dues for life in the perfect east coast oasis of Delaware. 2 hours to Manhattan and 2 hours to DC! Obviously if you love lobster and crabs, you have to be on the east coast. Can you believe I saw a sign on Michigan Ave in Chicago for MAIN LOBSTER......wait for it......! It was the dead of winter, and I was home sick. I didn't have the heart to burst their bubbles...

I did get to go to China as part of an Occupational Medicine delegation, and the Great Wall really is Great! So is the Forbidden City! I went to Egypt on my own for presentations in Cairo and Sharm El Sheik. The Pyramids, the Valley of the Kings, and the Temples in Luxor are really worth the trip! Public Health and Occupational Medicine conferences in London were enlightening, but as different as our systems are, things seem to work (although tenuously) in each place.

All that travel reminds me that I have found my maternal DNA links me to Sierra Leone and my paternal DNA links me to Gabon. I will need to set aside plenty of time for travel to these places.

So, why haven't I been to any reunions? We always celebrate Thanksgiving at our house in Delaware. Family and friends travel from Massachusetts and Maryland to come, so we are Turkey Day Central! I would love to see everybody, but maybe online? I do get to Massachusetts from time to time, so I can try to look some folks up when I am in the vicinity.

What do I do when not playing doctor? I have self published two novels and I have one short story that was recently accepted to a magazine. The short story if about a prison doctor calling his girlfriend while trying to escape the facility as a plague turns everyone into zombies. It's titled, "The Last Call." The magazine that accepted it is "Twisted Dreams." Good fit, right?

This writing thing has become addictive. I have plenty of stories in me and I think I have to stop my self from seeing a new story every time I see something strange while walking or even in the news. So, be careful what news you make . . .

Going undefeated in lacrosse our senior year!!!
Our first lacrosse tryouts were on the baseball field in front of the school. A bunch of rag-tag kids with wooden sticks with "catgut" strung in the heads.
X-Block!! That meant we could leave early!!!