Rounding the Corner…

COVID-19 is a very strange disease.  We are learning more about it and in doing so, understanding how better to treat it.  I was recipient of the lessons past experiences had taught medical providers, and study of the COVID-19 virus taught them the dos and don’ts of treatment from which I benefited.  One of the

Faith…

Fides quaerens intellectum…”faith seeking understanding.” St. Augustine I retired as a minister in the United Methodist Church after twenty-three years of service.  Admittedly, this was a mixed bag.  I had been the pastor-in-charge for several churches, and when pastoring in Missouri, was the pastor of a 2-point charge.  Every other week I would lead the

The ER…

When my wife saw that my oxygen saturation was 84, she was quite alarmed.  She didn’t say much at the time, but unbeknownst to me, she consulted our PCP and friend, Dr. Elias Hernandez, and her daughter, an ER nurse who works in a COVID unit.  Both said the same thing…get him to the ER. 

A Fight with COVID-19

I realized that my job was to get better and getting better is found in compliance rather than opposition. I did everything the medical staff asked me to do as best as I could do it and it appears to have paid off. I am now back home. On Wednesday, November 11, I went to

Family Therapy: It’s all about the Relationships

Psychology is all about the “self.”  That should not be surprising because even though Freud—the progenitor of psychoanalysis—included in his notion of the self the “superego,” which is Freud’s acknowledgement of environmental impact upon thought processes, the primary focus was not upon society, but the individual and their neuroses.  Since that time, psychology has been

Post-Truth COVID-19 “Facts”

While researching a different topic, I began to think a great deal about truth, especially the phenomenon known as “post-truth.”  Minted as the Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year, post-truth denotes an environment where people judge the facts based upon how the facts measure up to their ideological point of view, a point of

Down the Rabbit Hole…

I have been observing for some time the journey of the mentally ill, but the existential nature of this journey is not as real as when it affects the life of a loved one.  In a metaphorical way of thinking, mental illness is the repetitive journey down the “rabbit hole” in such a way that

An Introduction to Me…

Who am I? Well, that question may take a while to answer. I grew up in Boise, Idaho the oldest in a family of four. My mom and dad were hard working, evangelical Christians and we attended the Church of the Nazarene. When I was about 15, I decided to rebel against the standards and