I am way overdue for some observations on the passing scene. Each topic here is surely worth one or more full posts. I will defer at this time, though if someone wants to comment and request a fuller dialogue, I’m…

I have to admit, I watched some of the wall-to-wall, commercial-free, all-crisis-all-the time coverage on the Toledo TV channel yesterday. Yes, I have some initial thoughts on the situation. (No time to start disappointing folks now….) First, as to the…

No single topic today, just keeping the blog semi-warm while the mercury creeps back up as we expect in late July. My health lately has been a mixed bag. I never have been able to shake the constant paresthesia in my…

This troubling story, authored and disseminated by the Associated Press, appeared in my local newspaper this morning. Those of us who work in healthcare and deal in protected health information (PHI) on a daily basis can only shake our heads…

Nothing profound or political today. As I root for the elusive sun to come back out and warm us up—it appeared oh, so briefly a bit ago but retreated again—I guess I’ll just stay on the treadmill a bit longer…

Disclaimer: I’m not asserting much in the way of original thought in this post, rather summarizing some of the better arguments I have encountered in the recent wake of the tawdry episode of Donald Sterling. Surely some of my few…

I don’t mean to identify in the title with the profane and hateful screed some might call “music,” rather to reflect on the hand-wringing that has been occurring in my business over the last week or so. I refer to…

While I spent my pre-adolescent years in the 60s, I recall little of the civil rights struggles of that decade, other than staring in wonderment at the TV as Huntley and Brinkley showed us footage of Watts and Detroit burning.…