‘Fess up. Oftentimes we are too busy to reflect on the good we do at Clovis Community Medical Center and, worse, fail to remind others that this isn’t “just a place of business” or “where I work.” For the last bunch of years, I’ve prepared Community Medical Centers’ annual corporate community benefits report, which is [...]

Sorry, each staff member said. So sorry. Their eyes said sorry, too, and the softness of their mannerisms. The doctor said this procedure was something he was called upon to do two or three times a week. He, too, used comforting words. I’m not here to hurt you, he said. As my son and I [...]

Thanks to politics, I’m reminded that the stink season has started. And pity to us all. Seems GOP candidate Van Tran sent out a scratch-n-sniff mailer in his drive to unseat U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez in Orange County. “Something smells rotten about Loretta. It’s the stench of Washington.” Yeah, yadda-yadda. Hard to imagine how the [...]

There’s politics, and there’s foliage. One’s about nurture, one’s about nuttiness. I’m a New Yorker, “pave it, don’t prune it” kind of guy. But for the last couple of months, for several hours a week, I’ve been forced to take a hose to outdoor potted plants. (Wait! I water the bloody plants, I don’t BEAT [...]

It was a glorious day for baseball at Camden Yards in Baltimore. I had a fistful of hotdog, heading to tray where relish stood, open to the elements. Slapped a spoonful onto the dog and then — splash, splash — from a leaky pipe in the overhang, some kind of liquid (please let it be [...]

Have trouble remembering your spouse’s birthday? Well, how well do you know the prescriptions and over-the-counter medications they take? Surgeries, which leg and when? Food allergies? If the world went to heck, do you know what their final wishes are? We keep a red folder — red because it says “urgent.”  It has been invaluable [...]