Black and White World
The snow came down so fast, I went into a house hardly noticing the few flakes, and when I got out the roads were white. From Cranston St. to Hope St. I saw two fender benders and what looked like a bus and trolley collision. I prayed all the way home that I wouldn’t slide [...]
Needy
Word is out on the internets that Pastor Rick Warren has got a pile of bills he can’t pay. A megachurch, like a Ponzi scheme, will do just fine as long as new members keep streaming in. But there are only six billion of us on earth, and only so many who can make it [...]
Hypothetically
The HIPPA regulations mandate tearing out the fingernails of any health care worker who breaks confidentiality. So let me not be guilty of that crime. Purely as a hypothetical situation, a nurse might have encountered a patient whose bad choices and bad luck had put him flat on his back in a nursing home. Whose [...]
Free Market Can’t Do This
I was making my home visits and spent some time talking to a nice woman who lives on disability. She told me that she used to work at a strenuous low-wage job. Now she is in a wheelchair, because one of her knees was destroyed by MRSA and cannot be repaired. What should have been [...]
Get Well Soon, Henry Shelton
From ProJo.com, longtime activist for the poor, Henry Shelton, is in the hospital surviving a stroke. I crossed paths with his wife, Carol, who was teaching social work at Rhode Island College when I was a student there. Henry was formerly a priest, and Carol a nun. As a married couple in the secular life [...]
Can This Marriage be Saved?
It’s time for all good people who believe in the truth of the Bible and the sacredness of marriage to stand up and stop Karl Rove from making a terrible mistake… Karl Rove, former senior adviser to President George W. Bush, has been granted a divorce in Texas after 24 years of marriage, family spokeswoman [...]
Stop the Presses!
The Hill blog says that Linc Chafee will announce his candidacy for governor on January 4. No surprise to us. The comments section after the post is already full of partisans hurling flame balls. Sadly, we are a divided nation, and it will be hard to talk sense. I’ll be impressed by any candidate who [...]
Orly Taitz Revealed?
Raw Story says that Orly Taitz, lawyer, dentist and voice in the wilderness is calling on her followers to ‘bare arms’. I know we live in troubled times, but Orly– between you and me, at our age sleeves are better. In the summer no one minds, but it’s a little more formal in December. A [...]
Saving Lives, It’s What They Do
We have some very good local blogs, one of the best is Rescuing Providence. Michael Morse, in his 34 hour day somehow manages to work the rescue and write about it too. Where my mission is to keep people from needing emergency services through preventive care, Providence Rescue is there when prevention fails. I have [...]
Dark and Cold
At church this Sunday they were having a genteel argument over whether 2010 is the first year of a new decade or the last of the preceding. Most of the snow from the big storm has melted in two days of warm and mild weather. Now an arctic front is moving in promising dry cold [...]
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