"Real Patriots Serve and Sacrifice"
[The dispatch below came pouring out of me this morning, for sharing with readers of my Facebook page. On reflection I decided it would...
"The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right."Â -- U.S. Circuit Judge Learned Hand (1872-1961)
CF Heterozygote, Self-Appointed Architecture Critic, Cooperator, Ratepayer Advocate
[N1303K is a mutation on Chromosome 7 associated with cystic fibrosis. In case you were wondering. Experimenting with Mastodon.]
[The dispatch below came pouring out of me this morning, for sharing with readers of my Facebook page. On reflection I decided it would...
The planetary grassroots organization Vertex Save Us is reaching out to the CF community for support. We Americans are in a very...
By which I mean, of course, that it's only $764 million in U.S. dollars (according to the November 16 exchange rate). But if you are...
Above is the data from the CF Foundation's national patient registry, as of 11/12/2020. Bottom line = three deaths, all of them...
What do the American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association (and its division, the American...
When the Old Man of the Mountain toppled to earth on May 3, 2003, I instantly had an idea for a replacement New Hampshire Icon. Rather...
Kudos to the top officials of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation -- CEO Mike Boyle and COO Marc Ginsky -- for briefing key CFF volunteers...
Hello Planet Earth: Seventy-two years ago, a pathologist working at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York announced via a...
To know me is to know that my favorite charity is the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Just as the March of Dimes cured polio, so too is the...
Kate Wagner is my new icon and role model. Yeah, from what I can tell she's about half my age. She has training and insight I can never...
Interesting contemporary architecture can be mighty hard to find in New Hampshire. Yes, the Granite State is home to one of the most...
One of my most salutary bits of career-related happenstance occurred a decade ago when I joined a triumverate consisting of me and two...
One of the biggest reasons why the struggle to overcome cystic fibrosis is "the greatest story in medicine" is something the CF...
It always drives me crazy when journalists covering topics related to energy or public utilities proclaim in their first sentence or two...
Diet Cherry Coke is one of my two guilty pleasures. The other one I acquired in 2002, just a few days after my daughter was diagnosed...
This blog post publicly proclaims the end of my 17-year intimate relationship with John Carver. Okay, okay. I've never actually met John...
Toenail fungus is the most discouraging of scourges, ravaging the human family just when we already have enough troubles. But it’s an...
Proud to say that Rose and I made this little persuasive pitch that is running on the web site FightPharma.org. Check it out!
The latest edition of my work-related column at the independent news web site InDepthNH.org . . . . . . with apologies to the late Phil...