Category Archives: Health

Death of a friend

(Saturday, February 22, 2009)……It is Saturday morning and I am sitting at home starting to read the Orlando Sentinel.  The paper seems to be the same size, but for some reason it takes half as long to go through it.  I suspect that this is due to the reduction of staff, less emphasis on news, [...]

Things That Take Your Breath Away

It is Wednesday morning and I am at the Fire Department getting caught up on things, as if you can really ever get caught up.  It is when you least expect something that it seems to grab you, knowing that you are just not mentally prepared for something upsetting.

The Case of the Exploding Iron

How can so much go wrong at one time?
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DATELINE:  March 2, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada
 It is 9:45 p.m. and I am in my room at a very nice hotel in Las Vegas getting ready to iron some shirts.  I am in town for a rodeo meeting and I am teaching a class tomorrow.

 I finished unpacking [...]