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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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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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Connections on the Compass of Life
I read an interesting article in the Iowa Capital Dispatch a couple days ago entitled “Iowa communities look to fill gaps in statewide mental health care” by Kadin Luhmann. The fascinating main story was about a relatively new mental health care initiative taking place in my hometown, Mason City, Iowa. It led to a number…
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KCCK da Blues with Bobby D
Hey, last night Bobby D, Bob DeForest was covering the Friday night blues show and I heard a song that was new to me, “You Can’t Judge a Book by the Cover” by Albert Castiglia and featuring Christone “Kingfish” Ingram. First of all, I found out a lot of people don’t understand the title and…
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Baptism for a Lightweight
This post is a blast from the past. Before I published the handbook for consultation-liaison psychiatry over 15 years ago, I suggested a blog post for the Cambridge University Press author web site. I can’t remember if they bought the idea-probably not. But I was pretty proud of our little book, since it weighed zero…
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Coming to Terms with Retirement ReBlog 2026
Reblog Note: WordPress notified me today that on this date in 2019, I posted “Coming to Terms with Retirement.” I hardly know what to say about it, except that I’m in about the same boat now as I was then, for the most part. I’m not sure what stage I’m in now in retirement. It’s…
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Taking a Stroll Down Memory Lane
WordPress is sending me messages about a number of things lately. I’ve gotten a couple of reminders in the past couple of days of posts I’ve published on specific dates in previous years corresponding to current dates this year. The WordPress message is: Cracking open the content time capsule: Revisit your posts from such and…
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May is Mental Health Month: Which Song is My Anthem?
OK, so this post does a couple of things. One is the May is Mental Health Month, and the topic for May 30th is naming which song is your anthem. The questions posed are how does it make you feel now and is it worth putting back on your playlist. This topic is out of…
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Memorial Day Connections
I was never in the military, but I tried once ages ago. I guess I’m lucky it didn’t work out. Memorial Day always makes me thing about my father, John Amos. Once upon a time, I would have said our relationship was either non-existent or difficult. But I’m not going to dwell too much on…
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May is Mental Health Month: Today the Topic is Finding Awe
Since May is Mental Health Month, the topic for today is finding awe. I don’t think of it as mainly feeling small in the face of the grandeur of creation. The point is we’re a part of creation. We rightly could feel awe at ourselves just about everywhere we happen to be. We took a…
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