I’m an old-fashioned guy, and I believe in words—verbal communication. I had read Herman Melville’s Moby Dick twice by the time I was out of high school. I’m also the only guy I know not some-kind of minister who has read the Bible twice. I read it once out of curiosity while I was still […]
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Posted March 31, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 March 2019 March 31st, 2019 | Tags: auditory, Bible, Christianity, comic books, Dickens, emoji, emotional component, evil, good, Herman Melville, high school, images, labor-intensive, language, literature, minister, Moby Dick, novas, obscene gesture, old-fashioned, reading, sailing vessels, Stories, verbal description, visual, visual images, Walt Disney, western language, whaling, whiteness, words | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted July 31, 2018 in Uncategorized By Joel Bowman, on 31 July 2018 I am older than Debra, so if she is in her “third third,” I’m in my fourth quarter. I still have some game left to play, but the clock is ticking, and there are no time outs. At this point in my life, many of the people I have known have died. That includes both […] July 31st, 2018 | Tags: aging, Appointment in Samarra, auto accidedents, Battle of the Greasy Grass, clock, Custer, daily lives, death, engaged, fourth quarter, game, Grim Reaper, Henry James, high school, illnesses, Little Big Horn, live all you can, medieval combat, meeting death, roller coaster, Samarra, strategy, Tennyson, The Ambassadors, the clock is ticking, there are no time outs, Ulysses, youth | Category: Uncategorized | Comments are closed Posted May 30, 2016 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 May 2016 Studies of the placebo effect suggest that the mind has a major impact on a person’s sense of health and well-being. We can be persuaded to feel bad, good, fearful, or optimistic based on a wide variety of environmental factors. As Debra pointed out in her article this month, “The Truth About Healing,” we were […] May 30th, 2016 | Tags: acupuncture, cancer, Chairman Mao, Chinese medicine, chiropractic, commercial reporting, communists, fear, fentanyl, first do no harm, Hepatitis A, hernia, high school, Hippocratic Oath, holistic, International College of Integrative Medicine, kidney, l cataracts, liver, mammograms, mammography, MD, media, medicine, naturopath, propofol, radiology, sponsored stories, surgery, The Truth About Cancer, thermography, thyroid, TV advertising, X-rays, ZYTO | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted August 31, 2014 in Uncategorized By Joel Bowman, on 31 August 2014 One of the things about life is that we never really know what’s next. Most people know the saying by Scottish poet Robert Burns, “The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley.” Most of us can also think of one or more things in our lives that confirm its truth. In many […] August 31st, 2014 | Tags: Army, B schools, best-laid plans, calculus, chronic fatigue syndrome, clerk, college, combat, grad school, graduate, high school, hypnosis, literature, Mary Jo Bulbrook, medic, neurolinguistic programming, NLP, psychology, retrospect, Robert Burns, sailing vessels, social activism, sociology, soul purpose, steam ships, tacking, type, typing, University of Illinois, Vietnam | Category: Uncategorized | Comments are closed |
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