The very concept of “faith” means believing in something you can’t prove.  It means you put your hope into something that you don’t know for sure will happen.  For instance, every night when I go to sleep, I have “faith” that I will wake up in the morning.  I have no way of knowing for [...]

I’ve seen their commercials on TV from time to time, and I’ve always said to myself that I should get more information about it.  Now, I have.  And when the day comes — as it surely must — where I shuffle off this mortal coil, my body will be donated to medical science through a [...]

OK, so last night I was an altar boy — or something — at my old church in Iowa.  And there was a funeral that I had to prepare for.  And the funeral was for Teddy Kennedy.  I had to set up the candles to line up on either side of the casket, and I [...]

Sure is nice to see Rush Limbaugh looking all hale and hearty after his recent health scare.  It wasn’t a heart attack… in fact, they don’t know WHAT it was.  But El Rushbo emerged from his near death experience as full of himself as ever, declaring that the American health care system is just “fine [...]

As I’ve mentioned time and time again on this blog, vivid dreaming is part and parcel of Parkinson’s disease.  So, in many cases, is REM Sleep Behavior Disorder — the lashing out, hitting and kicking while acting out dreams that caused Gail and I to move to twin beds earlier this year.  Klonopin has done [...]