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About a week before the opening day of Baseball season, this was the view as I walked my dogs.  The park between the football and baseball stadiums is quite nice, but never has very many visitors except on game days. There was a lot of activity on this day at the Ballpark including a trial run of the PA system. Must have been some Baby Boomers working that day judging from the music coming from the stadium.  As Lying Eyes  by the Eagles played, I smiled as I wondered if perhaps the music selection was by someone who had observed the same 2 or 3 couples of Baby Boomers, that I had seen a few times, meeting in the adjoining park in the afternoon.  They would always arrive in separate vehicles and appeared a little more happy to see each other than you would expect from a long term relationship. If the Baby Boomer generation has a theme song for cheating, it is probably Lying Eyes . Perhaps some of us have......  Guess, I shouldn't go there. ...She rushes to his arms, The

Wrote about Scott after reading the NY Times article last October and wondered what became of him.  He died 3 days after the article in the NY Times.  Here is link to an interview with the Times columnist shortly after the death of his friend. http://www.npr.org/2012/10/18/163188233/times-health-care-op-ed-gets-unexpected-response Below is my original post from Oct 2012 Fatal Mistake   http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/opinion/sunday/kristof-a-possibly-fatal-mistake.html This article although mostly about the state of healthcare for the uninsured, illustrates the sometimes profound benefit of early cancer detection. Symptoms ignored and untreated because of a lack of health insurance resulted in unpaid costs of many hundreds of thousand dollars and counting.  Also a life will almost certainly be shortened significantly. We all help pay for these costs through local taxes and higher insurance premiums. The article brought to mind my own diagnosis and treatment.  http://pul