Pull Tight

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 rush...

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 an...