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Ollie in Orange

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WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 14: DC Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks to inmates as she tours DC Central Jail after announcing policy changes to support employment for inmates during and after incarceration in Washington Monday September 14, 2015. (Photo by J. Lawler Duggan/For The Washington Pos “He didn’t follow the rules, so he deserves to be in jail, at least for a while.  Teach the old man a lesson, Read More

2022 and Heroes

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 When I was growing up, I considered Clint Eastwood, the movie actor, to be my hero, I suppose.  I watched every movie he made and counted the days until his next film appeared in local theaters. This included The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Dirty Harry, Sudden Impact, The Unforgiven, Gran Torino and more. I guess he was a hero to me because he was larger tha Read More

Bone Bruises, Sixth Grade Teachers and Patty

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It was in sixth grade.  I’m sure of it. Mostly because I was in competition with a girl name Patty S, a tall blonde dream girl who always tried to beat me finishing tests.  She smiled at me even when I beat her, which wasn’t often, but oh my, when such a beauty smiled at me it made it all worthwhile.  But then, she probably never frowned that I could remember.  And she was a fast runner Read More

I Have Lived a Good Life

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The internist consulted me to help with this patient’s respiratory status.  He told me, “She has Osteogenesis Imperfecta with some right heart failure and is having trouble breathing.  I don’t know what else to do at this point.” “I’ll be happy to see her.  What room is she in?” He told me her room number, and then said, “And she’s two and a half feet tall Read More

My Thanksgiving 2018: Spending Time With a Forgotten 105 year -old American Hero: Colonel Ollie Cellini

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    It was nearing the end of the day for me while I was serving my duty in the ICU at the hospital. I was called to the emergency department to admit a patient to the ICU. He was stabilized in the ED and I came to see him there prior to transferring him to the ICU. “Carson, he’s 105 years old and the family doesn’t want him to have heroic measures done, like CPR or intubation, but they will al Read More

Saving The Easter Bunny

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  I’ll call the frantic thing a she, although I wasn’t sure about the sex, but she did have a cotton tail and pointed ears. Turns out I left my pool cover open all night and surprisingly the next morning, without stopping to make coffee, something told me to go and do something else first. Here’s a fact: if I avoid coffee in the morning, it would be as likely as a meteorite striking me while I’m climb Read More

Inspired By The Bouncy Raven Haired Pendulum

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  Her long raven mane, held at the top by a bouncy pony tail clip, reached all the way down to the end of her shirt, brushing gently back and forth on top of her shapely garlic cloved halves while swishing the air back and forth like a pendulum, in cadence with her stride, but several milliseconds out of phase. Those tights hugged her lean legs as if poured on like lucky melted chocolate on smooth ice cream, Read More

A Brief Second That Almost Changed a Lifetime

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  I probably should’ve found a ride that day to my first day at Cross Country practice, admittedly, a demented sport, but really I had no choice.  Both parents were gone to work of course, and since we lived out in the country, I didn’t have any friends available with parents to drive us. Truth is, I wouldn’t have asked them anyway unless I was on my death bed.  Turns out that bed could’ve been clos Read More

Father’s Day, Shmather’s Day, Part Eleven

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There is only one day out of 365 that I only try to survive, hoping the daylight vanishes quickly and the darkness immediately escapes into the rejuvenating sunlight of the next day so I can rush off to work and be ridiculously busy. And for that same reason, I didn’t go to church today. I wanted to, but just couldn’t do it. This is the one day out of 365 that I absolutely can’t go to a church service. To Read More