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Time for July Psychiatry Consults Reblog Reflections; Ouch!
Here’s a reblog post from June 6, 2019. As I reflect on it, I remember with chagrin the time when I tried to fix the challenge of difficult to decipher psychiatry consult questions. What it taught me belatedly is that you just can’t fix everything. I think my frustration was obvious to the trainees and…
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Correctly Pronounce the Name Odysseus or Just Call Him Bud
I read an interesting essay yesterday in an issue of Iowa Now about a great story in Greek mythology. It’s the story of The Odyssey, which I have difficulty remembering how to spell. And that reminds me of a couple of anecdotes. They both involve my learning about Greek mythology from two great teachers at…
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Last Day of Cow Week and Today is National Donut Day!
It’s the last day of Cow Week and Mike Waters is doing his wake-up call this morning. And he announced that today is National Donut Day! I had no idea. He’s wondering whether there are any bakeries in Eastern Iowa that could get a shout-out for it. I had to look this up on the…
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Photogenically Speaking…
I suppose you’re wondering why most of the photos of me don’t match the one that goes with the About Me picture on my blog’s home page. It’s mostly about vanity, but that can’t be the whole explanation. Otherwise, all of my headshots would be the same as the About Me picture. This is all…
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Cow Cap for Cow Week & Other Mysteries
I went to the mall yesterday and just for the heck of it went to a cap shop (no, not the cop shop; I was a good boy!) and bought a cow cap! The store is called Lids Locker Room for obvious reasons. I told the salesman why I wanted it, filling him on the…
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Hey, It’s a Throwback Post to 2022!
This is one worth reblogging, mainly because I fracture some of the content of Edith Hamilton’s Mythology book. It’s one that hits my sentimentality bone because it’s the book my favorite English Lit teacher, Dr. Jenny Lind Porter, used to teach mythology when I was a freshman at Huston-Tillotson College (now Huston-Tillotson University) in Austin,…
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Being Still Along the Terry Trueblood Trail
The other day I was out for a walk along the Terry Trueblood Trail. It was sunny, a little warm but not blistering hot. I saw a few interesting things. This was almost like an awe walk. I saw a couple of chalk written messages on the walk. One of them was “Enjoy the Ride”…
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Cow Week Wednesday with Mike Waters KOKZ 105.7 Trip to the Dairy Farm Wormhole!
This is day 3 of Cow Week with Mike Waters Wake Up Call radio show on KOKZ 105.7. There’s a Sci-Fi angle on the whole cow thing today. Mike’s really hard to keep up with, but today there was this incident involving a cow flying through his window with a note with instructions on it.…
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I Have Dave Barry’s New Book, “Class Clown”
Yesterday I was hiking hither and yon and ended up at Barnes and Noble. You’ll never guess what I bought there! Oh, you read the title of this post, OK. I always stop at the humor section and I never see anything by Dave Barry. When I saw his new book (well, newer; Class Clown,…
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Thoughts on the Reblog of Thoughts on the National Spelling Bee: Implications for Cow Week?
So, WordPress is telling me that I should post something on June 3, 2026 because I posted something on the same date in 2022. We’d never seen a spelling bee competition before and it was gripping. And then I thought of that Chick-Fil-A commercial spelling bee with the “word” Eat Mor Chikin. Has anyone else…
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