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Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about stuff. Not the general meaning of stuff, as in: I’ve been thinking about stuff. But the more literal sense, as in stuff stuff: things, material possessions, articles we accumulate and drag through life like barnacles on the bottom of a boat. That’s the kind of stuff I’ve been thinking about.
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Hypothyroidism, the condition of the thyroid gland not making enough thyroid hormone, is a common hormonal disorder. Perhaps because hypothyroidism is common and its symptoms can be widespread and vague, misconceptions abound. Let’s cover the facts.
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My boat, a not-so-fancy flat-bottomed john boat, was gassed up and the batteries were charged. Fresh line was wound onto my reels, and I was ready to go. Betsy had begrudgingly agreed to go along, and we headed for the river on the late afternoon of Thursday, May 12th.
Read moreAfter nearly 30 years of trying to prove a theory, that an environmental toxin was responsible for sickening roughly 250,000 U.S. troops who served in the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War, new research confirms that sarin nerve gas caused Gulf War Illness.
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The older I get it seems the less I truly know. I prove this to myself on a regular basis. I’ve seen tee shirts that say, ‘In my defense, the moon was full and I was left un-supervised.’ If I had a shirt like that, I would have been wearing it the other night—on the occasion of my most recent foray into the murky depths of my own ignorance.
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Readers often ask, “Roger, what’s the next adventure?” Other than Saskatchewan’s Lake Besnard in mid-June with old friends, Louisiana’s Gulf Shores will be an entirely new adventure. This whole thing started when Laurie, our oldest daughter and a Kansas City area physician, was talking to a friend about a recent vacation. Her friend had rented an oceanfront home large enough to accommodate the entire family for a week at Gulf Shores, Louisiana. Whether or not Laurie knew the area was a bucket list fishing destination of mine, I know not, but she did know I was addicted to fishing.
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