The Doctor Is In

Vignette #1: His surgery went smoothly–dozens of sutures too fine for the unaided eye, reconstructing his vasectomy to restore fertility. The outcome was promising, the young couple quite excited at the possibilities. His recovery was uneventful, so his call a week or so later was a bit of a surprise. “How’s everything going?” “I feel [...]

This is a reposting of the fourth of a previous series on alcoholism and addiction.   It seemed like such a great idea at the time… His name is Darin. Of course, that’s not his real name, but he is a casual friend of mine. A bright young man, possessed of good looks, a warm [...]

This is a reposting of the third of a series previously written on alcoholism and addiction. “There is a solution.” So starts a chapter of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous –the virtual Bible of recovery from alcoholism and the basis of virtually all 12-step recovery programs. And it works–according to the testimony of millions [...]

This is a reposting of the second of a series previously written on alcoholism and addiction. If you take the opportunity to speak with those who have survived the ordeal of addiction and alcoholism and who are in recovery, you will find a wide range of stories and experiences. When we think about those who [...]

This is a reposting of the first of a series previously written on alcoholism and addiction. I was listening to Bill O’Reilly on the radio recently, discussing a sports figure whose career was ended by drug use. He was using it as a segue into his philosophy about drug laws, enforcement, legalization and addiction. Now, [...]

Life has been good lately–but incredibly busy. Crazy busy–and may well be for the next few weeks or so. As a result, new posts will be sporadic or brief in the near term, barring an unforeseen turn of events. In the meantime, go get some exercise for your dog, and yourself. I’ll repost a few [...]

Bizarre behavior on my last post, which generates an Apache error when comments are submitted–but no error on comment submissions from any of my other posts. Upgraded WordPress to 2.02, which hasn’t fixed the problem (but fortunately went without a glitch so far). My hunch is that there is a spam or adult content filter [...]

On one of my earlier posts on Islam, I received the comment from a reader who, one might surmise, was not exactly an admirer. Such comments are a fact of life on a web log, and actually have been relatively infrequent here–may Allah be praised. I deleted the comment, as I’ve found life far simpler [...]