H Paul Garland

I have written about my Aunt Frieda before, but as I get closer to get to the end of life, the lessons that I learned from her are becoming ...

As this medical situation continues to evolve, hopefully I now seem to be gradually moving beyond the phase of chest and nasal mucus. I stil...

This proposed legislation finally died today. It was inevitable since many viewed this as a form of amnesty. The idea is good, although I th...

My abdomen has been bloated, distended, and very painful for a couple of weeks now. During the day the pain is bad, but at night it is very ...

Some remarkable things have been happening with my body during the last 24 - 36 hours. The body's immune system certainly has not defeat...

Next week America will see the finest total lunar eclipse until 2014. So will much of the rest of the world. December 20, my nephew Matt...

Is Barack Obama a sellout? Of course the answer is Overwhelmingly Yes . For almost two years I defended his compromises with the right wing...

In the run up to the Dr. Who Christmas Special they have made a fun little Dr. Who game. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/adventure_09/d...

If looks like Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who caucuses with the Democrats, may well be our man to run against No-Backbone...

I have "almost" bought a Kindle lots of times. They seem like neat toys. These electronic books are getting much cheaper. The prob...

The right wing talks constantly about how bad off the federal budget is. But they will not consider reasonable solutions, like reducing defe...

(Once again it is 1:00 a.m., and all the sticky mucus in my lungs is making breathing and sleeping difficult.) After seeing this unfold for ...

It is 1:00 a.m. I finally decided to just quit fighting trying to breathe, so I got up out of a nice warm bed. I guess that most of the peop...

I read on someone's web site today this description: "I am battling Stage IV leukemia, and there is no Stage V." That is a fa...

Don't you wish he would fight the Republicans this hard? He knows that the progressives and liberals don't want him damaged, so he c...

After President Obama supporting the extension of the budget-breaking Bush tax cuts for the super wealthy, it now is firmly set in concrete....

Since Obama and his Republican buddies extended the tax cuts for the super-wealthy, we need to stop calling them the Bush tax cuts and start...

I am in the phase of CLL where the itching is a pretty good imitation of intolerable. I did some research today on the internet, and I see t...

No Backbone Obama is getting ready to cave, as always. I just called the Congressman for our district at his office in Washington, D.C. I a...

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