The Writer as Garden Keeper
June 10, 2025
About ten days ago (the days run together and always too fast), my wife watched as I planted the first tomato plants. Here in Colorado,
Our First Medical Director
May 31, 2025
Our original EMS Paramedic class consisted, as I recall, of 32 students. We were each street hardened, having served the City of New York as
A Blog Life of Its Own
May 24, 2025
Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it. — Arthur
The Old Men of the Wing Chun Class
May 21, 2025
Three days a week (actually, one morning and two evenings) I make a 12-mile trip to an unremarkable business park in Centennial, Colorado. The dojo
The Last Class of Jacobi Medical Center
May 19, 2025
We graduated from Jacobi Hospital #paramedic school in August 1985, the same month and year that Roy Harold Scherer Jr. (aka Rock Hudson) announced his
Covid was not HIV
May 10, 2025
When I was in the process of writing “The Sea of Peroxide,” my recent title on my experiences as a New York City Paramedic during