June 10, 2019
Signature Punch Recipe
There may not be a lot of running posts for a while. So, I’ll continue generating content with something different: Recipes! This is probably the simplest recipe, ever! But, I served this punch at a party recently, and many, many people asked for the recipe. This particular punch is tasty, and has quite a bit of effervescence. Really, there are only 2 ingredients in this punch: Frozen Fruit Punch (295 mL) Ginger Ale The frozen fruit punch has a recipe on it which says to add 3 parts water. So, empty the fruit punch into a bowl, then fill the[…continue reading]
June 6, 2019
Hospital Funnies
The illness journey was pretty dark and hard (that’s what she said). But looking back there were a few moments of levity. Early in my hospitalization I was very confused. Not sure if it was the neurological auto-immune illness or the drugs that were treating it, but I was certainly not sober. It was scary and hard for my family, but a few gems emerged. For some reason, my wife left my phone with me, and disoriented Paul got into some shenanigans: 5am Pickup I sent a Facebook message to a friend at 5am. I insisted I needed him to pick me up[…continue reading]
June 3, 2019
What Did I See?
I’m still recovering from my health incident, and I’m hoping that the worst of it is behind me. During that period I almost died, at least once. After hearing that, quite a few people eventually ask me the same question: “What did I see?”. I don’t discourage anyone to ask that, in fact if positions were reversed I may ask the same question. Metaphysically, I’m sure a lot of people wonder if there is an afterlife, or what being so close to death is like. I suppose before I answer that question, I’ll frame it in what I expected to[…continue reading]
