Remembering the first Thanksgiving feast
Richard Roger and Oscar Hammerstein wrote in The King and I, “Sometimes, I am not sure what I absolutely know is so.”
Richard Roger and Oscar Hammerstein wrote in The King and I, “Sometimes, I am not sure what I absolutely know is so.”
By Dr. David R. Grube
My mom paid a painful price for not completing an advance directive about her preferences for end-of-life medical care. She was an intelligent and organized woman who had everything in her and my dad’s life planned out and written down. She even drafted her own obituary. Ironically, she never discussed her end-of-life care goals with my father or her physician son (me), preferring to talk about “more pleasant subjects.”
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To the Editor:
I’m weary of the mayor sermonizing and cheerleading in his segment in the Salado Village Voice. What bothers me is the incessant underlying message that the mayor is trying to keep the Salado flock on the correct path — albeit and arguably his path — using questionable methods.
We live in an age of miracles. Throughout all of human history, material progress essentially didn’t exist until around 1800. The economic trajectory was flat until the human lot began to improve in ways that would have been unimaginable in prior millennia.
Kim Hill lives a long days drive from here. Diagnosed with acute lymphatic leukemia at age three, she remembers, “Days of chemotherapy and radiation treatments were painful and frightening. I never felt good when I was little. I always had pain, terribly nauseated, and stuck with big, long needles. I was always being taken out of school, in the hospital, or sick at home. I had few friends because in school, I thought every one was talking about me or looking at me.”
For the press, the debate about Obamacare is over. There may be a few proverbial Japanese soldiers wandering on isolated islands yammering on about the failure of Obamacare, but word will eventually filter down to them, too.
If you’re a presidential aspirant and you have to tell people you’re a person of integrity, chances are you’re not.
Yesterday, a Paul Harvey commentary came to mind. Though not remembered exactly, he said:
“It’s testing time, again.
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Oh, great — just what America’s Big Money politics needed: more campaign consultants.
It was inevitable that Bernie Sanders would be accused of sexism sooner or later.