Let me be clear right from the start here. I am not dying any time soon so please don't get too excited just yet. It has been a little longer than two months since I went in for routine surgery to insert a couple of stents and then things went sideways fast. Since then my recovery has been up and down, mostly down. Without getting into the boring details I will just say that the doctors keep telling me that I'm doing great but I know that I'm not. I may not be good at many th

Yesterday I spoke with a long time friend of mine and we spent most of the twenty minutes bringing each other up to date on our various medical issues. Afterwards I found myself depressed, another medical issue to add to my list, over the fact that two pretty athletic men in our childhood have turned into a medical mess in our seventies. As kids we spent most of our non school lives outside playing. We either played pick up baseball and hockey and basketball or we played kick

I just had a few things to catch up on in my possible column folder so I thought why not today. Think of this as a low calorie column. Let's start here. Recently a friend posted on Facebook that she was trying to get used to a new android phone after being an iPhone user previously. She mentioned that Android users were a bit smug about their phones. I was surprised by this because as an Android fan I have always thought that iPhone users were the smug ones. Apple cultists te

Many of you know that I am a huge fan of baseball. It was my favorite sport to play growing up and in school I played on our team. I played softball well into my thirties and I am a passionate follower of the MLB network. I see a lot of games. We are lucky to be living in a market that allows me to see all the Dodgers, Angels, and Padres games. Throw in the national games on ESPN, TBS, and now NBC, along with the showcase games on the MLB network, plus their Extra Innings and