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Archive for August, 2007

LONG WEEK

The week I just had brings to mind one of my favorite songs of all time – Holding Back the Years by Simply Red, Lyrics by Mick Hucknall (Yeah, I love the Brand Nubian remake too.) Here are the lines Hucknall wrote over 20 years ago that sum it up: I’ll keep holding on Holding, [...]

“THE BIG C” AND ME

A couple of years ago I had my first colonoscopy. No it’s not typical for a guy in his mid-twenties to have the marginally annoying anal-probing procedure, but I did. There were two major reasons for me to get the ol’ colon checked out: one was my family and the other was my family history. [...]