Shows: On Apple TV: Shigadoon, Ted Lasso, and 1971, the year music changed On Amazon Prime: No Direction Home, a documentary on early Bob...

THE FOUR AMERICAS By George Packer George Packer is notable for writing found in the New Yorker and The Atlantic from which this is...

I live in the state of Washington. We have as strong a “left/right” polarization as anywhere in the country (world) but we have a unique...

When my mother died, she passed on an autobiography of some two hundred pages. I found of most interest, her recollections from her early...

Tres and a Most Dramatic Case of Suicide These recollections flows from a recent article in the American Academy of Family Practice...

July Recommendations: Music: I had a high school reunion this month and at many of the venues, music from the 60’s. I was reminded of my...

SUICIDE FACTS—Abstracted from a recent AAFP article on Suicide The ambiguity most of us feel about the difference of physical and mental...

Recommendations June 2021 Movies: The Hospital with George C Scott and Diana Riggs. For those in medicine, the dialogue will take you...

Randy’s Birthday at the Raffles Hotel Or Do They Cane You For Trivial Infractions in Singapore? I don’t celebrate my birthday and have...

THE UNTOLD STORY OF SHIELDS GREEN///LOUIS A DECARO JR. I did not know who Shields Green was. I am guessing you don’t either. If we read W...

Randy Stopped Delivering Babies When asked in the middle of my third year of medical school, which specialty I was likely to choose, my...

Critical Race Theory This topic is showing up on many news fronts. I have some thoughts in a summary form and some links of interest. I...

Books: The Wasp that Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon — A wonderful book to read aloud to someone who wasn’t a science major....

Books: Milagro Bean Field War---- John Nichols--fun novel full of whimsy The Autobiography of Malcolm--- X. Haley--Interesting read in...

Hacking Darwing by Jaime Metzl This book provides technical information for the layman as well as some helpful discussions on the brave...

Y2K Do you remember what you were doing December 31, 1999? I do. It was Y2K and I took my family with me to the center of the coming...

Recommendations, March 2021 I recently read of Southern Baptist using the name, “Jezebel” when referring to Kamala Harris. This finds me...

Ivanhoe In the Spring of 1971, Erik Ivanhoe drove me to the San Francisco Airport. I had a twenty dollar ticket for the redeye which...

Hitler’s American Model by James Q Whitman I read a lot about World War II. Some of the thousands of stories about Nazis reference the...

Podcasts: For your science nerds, download TWIV (This Week in Virology)app—it’s about viruses, the kind that make you sick…..it is a...