Seeing Blindly Jerome Groopman, M.D., is a professor at Harvard University Medical School, chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and one of the world’s leading researchers in cancer and AIDS. Read more
Alive and Healing New Year’s Day a year ago I was in the hospital, recovering from an emergency appendectomy.I had abdominal pain the whole week between Christmas and New Year’s, not too bad, (I kept working) but bad enough that midweek I went to see the doctor. Sh... Read more
C.S.... On My Resume! In April when I was diagnosed with a very aggressive, stage 4, non-Hodgkins lymphoma cancer called mantle cell, I said, "I never wanted to have 'cancer survivor' on my résumé but now I desperately do." On Monday, Nov. 20, 2006, when Sue and I hear... Read more
Where Else Would I Be? Christmas is a time to bring the whole family together, to share great fellowship, share great food, make heart-stirring memories all while celebrating the reason for the season. However, oftentimes, bringing the whole family together can also res... Read more
Electric Giving For Christmas 2004, Richard and Donna Hamann found a way to make their entire town happy. Anthon, Iowa, a community of 650 people, received an unexpected present from this retired farming couple. The Hamanns paid the electric bill for every home a... Read more
Read It Again For the First Time For the First TimeA number of years ago our family was having evening worship. We were reading my favorite devotional book, The Desire of Ages, and noticed that it wasn't being received with the same enthusiastic response from the younger generati... Read more
Upside Down Greatness Richard Daley, the eccentric mayor who served in Chicago for 21 years, had the reputation of being a bulldog boss. Once a speech writer approached him and requested a raise. Daley’s response was, “I’m not going to give you any more money. You’re g... Read more
