Monthly Archives: February 2017

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Book recommendation. I’d read Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago years ago, never realizing how much more he’d written. That one work is an incredible revelation of his personal history with Stalin’s political prison system in the 1940s-50s, but he wrote so much … Continue reading

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“Would you like the $9,400 CT scan or the $450 CT scan?”

  “Would you like the $9,400 CT scan or the $450 CT scan?”      We’re not all careful. Some of us ride motorcycles on the highway,… recklessly. A nephew ended up at a Level I trauma center in Houston, Texas, … Continue reading

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