I am a huge sports nut.  I love just about every sport, and growing up I tried everything except hockey. So I was ready to watch the recent Super Bowl between the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints. I remember that the Super Bowl was one game that my dad would sit and watch.  He wouldn’t [...]

One of my patients in the clinic was telling me about how his shoulder problem was preventing him for throwing with his son who is a pitcher on his baseball team.  In fact that was his number one goal to throw a baseball again and throw it well with his son.  It was exciting to [...]

I am getting married in October and frankly the myriad of details that goes into planning a wedding are unbelievable.  I have been in 11 weddings and I thought I knew everything, but as I am finding out, you can always learn something new in every situation.  It really is an exciting time.  I could [...]

Sometimes it is those little things in life that can just drive you crazy when you are going through them but oddly enough those seem to be the things that you miss the most when that special loved one is not around anymore.  I could give you dozens of things that used to drive me [...]

Believe it or not last night was the first time I actually watched the movie The Bucket List with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.  What a great movie.  Two total strangers, one deadly killer that they shared between them and a lifetime worth of memories rolled up into a 3-6 month time frame.  I could [...]

I used to laugh when my Dad used to make stuff for us in the kitchen.  I can tell you it just was not something he was very good at.  Thank God, most of us are fortunate to have two parents if for no other reason than not to starve.  My mom thankfully made sure [...]

The famous song that signals that summer is here.  One of my favorite things to do in the summer is to go to a baseball game.   I love going on a summer day or night and just being outside, smelling the fresh cut grass, seeing fans with their baseball gloves, and smelling that wonderful [...]

My Dad’s never ending project no matter what house we were living in was to clean the garage.  It did not matter how many times he cleaned it, the garage still looked like it needed to be clean.  Tools would be moved around, toys would be put away, lawn bags would be piled up but [...]

As I was working out the other day, I happened to look up at one of the many TV’s they have on at the gym and saw FOX news on.   Neil Cavuto who has a popular program on that channel was talking but of course they did not have the sound on.   All [...]

As I was writing this post I was going to go in a completely different direction and then something changed.   I burped.   Yep, that’s right I burped.   Now readers out there are wondering how in the hell can you be influenced in writing about one of nature’s gaseous effects? The reason is [...]

Growing up my Dad used to get so frustrated when he would have to repeat things over and over again to me.   It is not that I didn’t understand them, it was probably more like I didn’t think it was important enough at the time to remember.   Clean your room, don’t fight with [...]

As spring time approaches, the sun is coming out, the rain clouds visit occassionally and the grass grows and grows.   This is a signal in the Midwest that yes, finally we can get rid of the 6 months of winter everyone complains about.   A favorite pastime of every kid was that first time [...]

When I was growing up one of my favorites things to do was to play catch.   It didn’t matter what the ball was.   It could have been a football, baseball, or basketball, I didn’t care.   I could play catch or shoot baskets for hours on end and not get the least bit [...]

Hopefully that summer is right around the corner (yeah right) it was hailing here in Michigan today, it is the time for year for everyone to take inventory and do the dreaded spring cleaning.   Mostly, spring cleaning consists of getting rid of past stuff to make room for future stuff.   Basically in the [...]