The Last Time

One night after my mom was first diagnosed, I was reading an on-line cancer bulletin board when I ran across a husband’s description of his wife’s brain cancer as “the disease that takes away everything before it takes everything away.” I have no idea if this was his own profundity…

I recently entered a contest for 250-word stories. This one won an honorable mention. The requirements were that it had to be an adventure story that included the action of pulling a trigger and the word “nobody.” I hope you enjoy the story! The briquettes flamed to life at the…

A Letter I Wrote More than 30 Years Ago Haunts Me Now It was about 1986, I think. I was an undergraduate at Albright College in Reading, PA. It’s a United Methodist school, and I was in the pre-theological program — I planned to be a minister. I believe my…

Recently, the senate finance committee passed the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic Care Act of 2017 (CHRONIC) unanimously. This act opens the doors for Medicare Advantage subscribers to manage their chronic conditions through telemedicine visits and expands telemedicine availability for stroke patients. Only a few days…