Thanks again to the literally hundreds of people who posted comments and sent emails wishing me well with my recent illness, and in some cases sharing their own tragic or hopeful stories of illness and healing. I'm feeling much better. I went to see a specialist two days ago, and after much car...

I don't want to go on and on about being sick, but as a follow-up to my earlier post about it, I should just say that what I have is definitely not "just a virus." It is, among other things, a "cancer scare," that peculiar condition of modern medical diagnosis in which you're told they don't kno...

Man, nothing but the sound of crickets chirping around here, for which I apologize. I'm still quite sick, and there have been some possible complications that are absorbing a lot of my time and concern. Phil Davis I'm sorry to note two recent deaths. First, I learned recently that my friend and...