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For the last few years I have volunteered for the Lionheart Foundation’s program of healing for prisoners. Ideally this course is offered in a group format but the program is also given to prisoners who are in solitary confinement. This means one-to-one contact with a volunteer...

January 7, 2018 In my 60+ years of wandering this planet, I have noticed, everywhere, that children have a very well defined, if not always reality based, sense of justice. Why did HE get a bigger piece of cake? How come SHE gets to stay up later? Why do I have to do more...

I was in the third grade when I wrote my first story. It was a story about a mouse. A mouse who got into mischief. It wasn’t groundbreaking work, but it sure was fun. In those days, I had been gobbling up the books of Beverly Cleary, who had also written about such a mouse. My...

Not long ago I received a letter from one of my nieces, who is in college and was taking a course entitled “Literature and Medicine.” She wondered if I had any thoughts on the subject. As a doctor for 40 years and an unrepentant English major for longer than that, it turns out I...

PARADOX A WORD THAT BEST DESCRIBES MY LIFE. WEBSTER DEFINES PARADOX AS: TO THINK, SUPPOSE. FORMERLY A STATEMENT CONTRARY TO COMMON BELIEF. A STATEMENT THAT SEEMS CONTRADICTORY, UNBELIEVABLE, OR ABSURD, BUT MAY ACTUALLY BE TRUE IN FACT. A PERSON, SITUATION, ACT, ETC. THAT SEEMS TO...

FUSH, June 19, 2016 Tom Haushalter I don’t remember exactly how old I was—nine or ten—but I can tell you exactly where I was the first time I heard the song, possibly folk music’s most famous cautionary tale, “Cat’s in the Cradle” by Harry Chapin. My brothers and sister and I...

June 17, 2016 The word I have selected is connecting. Think of all the different forms of connecting we do in our lives. Dots, friends, chain letters and the list goes on. One of the great connections is to our past. Are we, in this electronic age, losing any long term connection...