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Aaron Carrol is a pediatrician who posts at the wonderful Incidental Economist blog. Today, he posted about the working conditions of physicians and attitudes about how physicians should approach their profession, past and present ( Read more... )

The day after my baby brother was born in 1975, my parents bought a piece of property in or near Walhalla, Texas (I'm not that clear on where the city limits are, it's not exactly a booming metropolis; it had a population of 37 in the 2000 census.). My parents knew that they wanted a place away from the city, where they could take their kids and ( Read more... )

So my dad has a bread oven at the ranch. He makes admittedly amazing bread--crusty and soft and chewy, especially good when it's straight out of the oven. Over the course of fifteen years, he's more or less perfected bread. It's somewhat time consuming, and it's messy, but the end product is downright wonderful. He makes a ton of it for the ( Read more... )

I was fast asleep on Saturday morning when the phone rang. It was cloudy outside, and it seemed like the perfect sort of day to lounge around, reading books, and otherwise not doing much.

The phone call was from my father. He and my mother had gotten up at some absurd hour to stand in line at the Urban Harvest annual fruit tree sale. I knew ( Read more... )

My father said at lunch today that my eulogy to Holden was beautifully written, and it touched on all the high points of Holden's life, with one glaring omission. He made me promise to add an addendum. I'll attach this to the original post, too, but perhaps it gets its own entry.


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So I'm reading my blogs, and I see this piece in the NPR health blog about a doctor pulling a Wendy's utensil out of someone's lung. And I think, "Wow! Papa did that decades ago!" Well, not a utensil, but a large mass accidently inhaled ( Read more... )

Me: This is Christina....

papa: How about some retsina(Note: the Greek Festival, usually the first weekend of October, was delayed because of the Hurricane. It starts tonight ( Read more... )

I just got a notification from facebook that a new picture of me was tagged by my sister. My sister just unloaded pictures from the wedding that we attended this weekend, so I assumed that it was one of those.

Nope.

It's a 35 year old photo of me and my father.


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Thanks to burkean, I discovered this little gem in last Friday's Dallas Morning News. It's a silly little piece about the absurd things that true believers try to get in the party platform. I suspect an equally nutty whackjob in the Democratic convention the week before tried something similar. I don't hold these moron particularly against the GOP. ( Read more... )