Let me tell you about my tiny adventure with the clinic that I visited for my steroid injections (read previous story here). First up, they waste a lot of paper. As soon as I stepped in, I was asked to sign in by the security guard: name, address, telephone. After waiting for a few minutes, …
Bothered by pain of having two middle trigger fingers, I decided to have them injected with liquid corticosteroids into the base of each. I knew that enough was enough finding myself becoming more short-handed. When you’re in pain, there’s no second thoughts taking the easy way out. But the after effects, I did not anticipate. …
There is nothing like a dream to create the future. —Victor Hugo Isn’t it amazing to create something in your mind and make it real, so real you can actually touch it? During our recent visit to the U.S., I had the opportunity to see, be in and actually touch two of the obras maestras …
By twenty laps. Beginning with little steps at a time. Many of you who had covid like me know that after battling the disease, the next thing you have to contend with is long covid. And if you didn’t know, it’s about time you did. Long covid are post-covid conditions which are long-term effects of …
These two words rarely go together in a sentence or in a title like this but if you were me in a situation described here, they could inhabit your character like mud on your face. I was in Veteran’s Memorial Driving Range practicing my swings when a man about my age and build walked past …
Lining up to pay in a supermarket counter, I was sandwiched by a couple of happy, old-but-not-too old lady and a gentleman who, by the level of the excitement I witnessed, maybe old ‘hood friends but have not seen each other for quite some time. Lady in front me: “Hey, Frank, long time. How are …
I am not much of an artsy person. My appreciation of art is no deeper than my belly button. I’ve seen the Mona Lisa ages ago in The Louvre. I went straight from the entrance to where it hang. I remember getting lost on the way because I walked past the same trash bins and …