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KCCK Radio Friday Blues with Bobby D
Last night Bob DeForest (Bobby D) was doing the driving spinning the blues on Friday night. One song brought back memories, but it wasn’t the song itself because I never heard until last night. It was on the list of records last night, but missing this morning. Hey, I was there. It was “Jesus Dropped…
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Personal Ancient History
The essay below is a blog post I wrote way back in 2010. I was a mid-career consultation-liaison psychiatrist in a university hospital. And I’d always been a writer by inclination. It was one of my first posts and after that, blogging was something I never really pulled away from. I tried to give it…
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Juggle Double Take!
I just noticed something this morning about my Fitness Test exercise video I made yesterday. In the juggle warm-up segment, if you just play it at normal speed it looks like one of the balls smacks my face. It’s when I do the second behind the back throw trick around 34 seconds in. I ran…
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Dr. Jim Fitness Test
I thought I would share my personal fitness test. I’m pretty regular, especially in the last couple of months since I found out I gained 20 pounds after I retired from my job as consulting psychiatrist to University of Iowa Health Care. Sena and I both exercise and we’re being careful about our diet (kale…
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May is Mental Health Month: Topic Today is Advocacy
Today’s topic for May Mental Health Month is advocacy. This could be about sharing a resource. I thought it might be OK to mention an Iowa resource for mental health, Your Life Iowa. It can be overwhelming to decide whether or not you’re ready to accept help for mental health challenges. First, you have to…
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Iowa Governor Reynolds Signs Iowa MAHA Bill Into Law Today
We watched the live-stream newscast of Iowa’s News Now video of Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signing the Iowa state version of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) bill HF 2676 into law just about an hour ago. U.S. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr was a guest and delivered a short speech in praise of…
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May is Mental Health Month: Topic for the Day is Friendship!
Today’s topic for May Mental Health Month is reaching out to a friend. I can give a shout out to three. This is a quirky one for me because two of them are long distance and one of them I haven’t communicated with for years. This stretches the definition of friend a little. So, on…
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WordPress Happiness Engineer Makes My Day!
It was beginning to look like I was probably not going to get human assistance with managing my new blog theme, but the WordPress Happiness Engineer saved the day! By the way, after I switched, I couldn’t find my old classic theme listed anywhere. So, even if I wanted to flip back to it, I…
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Navigating the New Blog Theme
I’m actually not navigating my new blog theme; I’m charging around it like a bull in a china shop. The only help I can easily access is the AI Assistant, who gave up after an hour or so. Supposedly, I’ll get a human assistant, but there’s no guarantee when that will happen. Until then, I’m…
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I Just Changed My Blog Theme
I know I kind of sprung this on you, but I’ve been thinking about changing my blog theme for a while. It’s a block theme as opposed to what my “Classic” (think “old”) and cluttered theme was. Block themes are the way of the future whether I like it or not. So, I’ve decluttered and…
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