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- A Brief History of the Arch Part II: The Old Cathedral
- A Brief History of the Arch Part III: The Eads Bridge
- A Brief History of the Arch Part IV: The Old Courthouse
- A Brief History of the Arch Part V: Luther Ely Smith
- A Brief History of the Arch Part VI: Eero Saarinen
- A Brief History of the St. Louis Arch: Part I
- A Doctor and a Gentleman
- A Proposal
- A Speechless Lesson
- A Thank You Call
- A Tribute to all Mothers
- Absence of Hope
- Absolute Power
- Accidents and Good Will
- Age and Memories
- Altered Minds
- Always a Resistance Fighter
- Always Forever His Woman
- An Accessory Hostage
- An Errant Christmas Call
- An Errant Christmas Call
- An Eternal Thank You
- Angel Eyes
- Anger and Tragedy
- Anger in America
- Annie Malone and American History
- As Time Goes By
- Banana Republics
- Basic Freedoms and Tyrants
- Bastille Day 1984
- Bastille Day 2018
- Beaches and the End of Life
- Beauty, Life, and Disease
- Behind Closed Doors
- Being a Gentleman
- Belonging to the Wild Oats Sisterhood
- Betrayed and Helpless
- Bikinis and Judgments
- Birthdays and Clowns
- Both Sides Now
- Boys; Men; Bright Futures
- By the Book or Straight from the Heart
- Cancel Culture
- Cervantes
- Charles Lindbergh
- Childhood Memories
- Christmas and Children’s Blessings
- Clouds and Depression
- Coming Home
- Computers in Medicine
- Conscription: Is There a Case for It?
- Consolation
- Courtesy and Destiny
- Covid Update XVIII
- COVID-19 Update I
- COVID-19 Update II
- COVID-19 Update III
- COVID-19 Update IV
- COVID-19 Update IX
- COVID-19 Update V
- COVID-19 Update VI
- COVID-19 Update VII
- COVID-19 Update VIII
- COVID-19 Update X
- COVID-19 Update XI
- COVID-19 Update XII
- COVID-19 Update XIII
- COVID-19 Update XIV
- COVID-19 Update XV
- COVID-19 Update XVI
- Crisis and Support Groups
- Culture Wars
- Death of a Friend
- Death of a Soldier
- Death of the Patriarch, Part I
- Death of the Patriarch, Part II
- Death of the patriarch, Part III
- Deception and its Consequences
- Different Folks
- Disease and the Soul
- Doctors and the End of Life
- Draining the Medical Swamp
- Duck and French Restaurants
- Duty
- Education and Excellence
- End of Life and Forgiveness
- Enemies Real and Imagined
- Enjoy It Now
- Eugenics
- Faded Roses and Extraordinary Measures
- Faith and Bad Outcomes
- Faith and Good Deeds
- Family Stress in the Exam Room, Part One
- Family Stress, Part Two
- Fantasies
- Fatherly Advice
- Fathers and Orlando
- Fathers and Respect
- Fish Fries and Lonely People
- For Better or for Worse
- Free of Charge
- Ghosts of Christmas Past
- Givers and Holidays
- Going Commando
- Good Intentions and Language Barriers
- Good Intentions and the Road to…
- Grandchildren and the Future
- Gratitude at Christmas; Long Delayed
- Great Expectations
- Grudges and Reconciliation
- Guns and Roses
- Hello From the Other Side
- Hope and Healing
- Hope and Healing Part Two
- Hypochondria
- Imperfect Solutions
- Imprisonment I: Memories of Ward D
- Imprisonment II; Immigration
- Imprisonment III; Sociopathy
- Imprisonment IV; Substance Use
- Imprisonment V; Mental Illness
- Imprisonment VI; White Collar Crime
- Inexcusable Behavior
- Informed Consent
- Insight
- Intermittent Fasting for Weight Loss
- Irish Catholic Spunk
- Jacuzzis and Married Folk
- Judgments and Mothers
- Kindness to Strangers
- Knees and Trust
- Know When to Fold Them
- La Vida Es Sueño
- Labor Lost
- Leadership and Franchise Restaurants
- Lessons of Love
- Life Without Mollete
- Life’s Paradox
- Looking for a Name
- Looking for Anger
- Make No Room for Bullies
- Making America Great
- Making Plans
- Marital Baseball
- Medical Advice and Family
- Memories
- Memories of City Hospital
- MIA
- Military Discipline and Children
- Military Spirit
- Minimum Wage and Getting to First Base
- Misunderstandings and Handicaps
- Modern Life and Medicine
- Monoclonal Antibodies
- More On Angel Eyes
- More on Birthdays
- Moving to a New Home
- Never Serve Bad Fruit
- New Year; New Life
- New Year; Old Family
- Of History and Statues
- Oklahoma City
- Old Age and Being Alone
- Old Age and Reality
- Old Days and Urinals
- Olives and Olive Oil, Part I
- Olives and Olive Oil, Part II
- On Friends and Violence
- On Life’s New Chapters
- On Not Wanting To Die
- On the Culture of Dependency
- On the Nature of Handicaps
- Other People’s Children
- Other People’s Children, Part Two
- Our Children’s Friends
- Our Daily Dead
- Our way of Life
- Overcoming Bad Parents
- Pain and Habits
- Parenting and Ketchup bags
- Parently Love
- Pay Attention
- Petrified Dogs and Marital Harmony
- Points Towards Heaven
- Power and Children
- Pretty Little Girls and Strong Women
- Profanity and Children
- Profits and Health Care
- Puerto Rico and Colonialism
- Reality Check
- Retirement and Plans
- Rewriting History
- Rose Gardens and Gentleman Farmers
- Save or be Lost
- Second Chances
- See Paco
- Shared Bathrooms and Eternal Bliss
- She’s Got a Way
- Sickle Cell Anemia
- Sickness and Insurance
- Skinny Jeans and Old Age
- Someone to Listen
- Sports and Equal Rights
- St. Patrick’s Day
- Stranger in a Land of Strangers
- Stretching the Truth
- Success and Recognition
- Super Bowl Outfits and Impressionable Girls
- Tax Returns
- Testing Explained Part II
- Testing Explained, Part I
- Testing Part III
- The Abusive Partner/Parent
- The Battle of Pilot Knob
- The Burden of Arthritis
- The Joys of Family
- The Magnificent Seven
- The Soup
- They Are windmills, Not Giants
- To Do the Right Thing
- Transitions
- Tribute to a Mentor
- Trouble in Rightland
- Trust the Doctor
- Under Pressure
- Underneath it All
- Unfriendly Neighbors
- Update on Christmas and Children blog
- US Navy Memories I
- US Navy Memories II
- Vaccines and Treatments
- Vietnam II: Ho Chi Minh
- Vietnam Part III
- Vietnam Part IV
- Vietnam Part V
- Vietnam Part VI
- Vietnam Part VII
- Violence and Little Boys
- Welcome to Peyton
- What Families Do
- What You Make of It
- When Humans Ate the Tiger
- When Life Must End
- Why Are We Divided?
- Why Did You Save Me?
- Winter Holidays and Unexpected Surprises
- With Liberty and Safety for All
- You Don’t Know Me
- Zenobia