I never realized that my life would be in danger when I started wearing Averagé tactical retirement clothing. Averagé --where style is...

A few months ago I told MB that I would probably not write any more articles about him. I lied. The reason I write so much about MB is...

Winter lasted long enough this year in Island Park that some of us got to spend time with our imaginary friends. Thanks to the...

KFC, Alamogordo, NM Last month, on the occasion of my sister’s 90th birthday, she celebrated with two receptions. The first was in...

WALTER Walter Barbee is moving on. He will be a pastor in Mississippi where he has purchased a nice home with acreage and orange trees....

LORD FARQUAAD REVISITED Three years ago, the Island Park News published "Lord Farquaad," an article for Upstream Idaho, describing some...

The more stuff I get, the more trouble I have finding things. Where did I put my keys, my wallet, and my phone? How far down the road do...

This could be you. Instead, it is a picture of our friend, Dr. Robert DeKay, from Anchorage. What a name for a dentist who became an...

Jane was the new girl in school. She had bouncy pigtails and was the only girl I ever knew who wore red, low-top, boy’s Converse...

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By Any Other Name would smell as sweet;” (Romeo and Juliet, Act-II, Scene-II) Before the...

Vigilant readers will recall "Off to England," last month's commentary about what a great time MK had getting me to Chartham, England....

On a Sunny afternoon in Phoenix, I met a woman walking along the Arizona Canal Trail. Even though it was January, I wore a golf shirt and...

OFF TO ENGLAND When we were much younger and better looking, MK and I were invited to go to England with SS and SS. We had just finished...

LIVING THE DREAM Three years ago, Jared Manwaring, M.D., a younger, brighter, and much better-looking urologist showed up and I gradually...

In medical school, there were two learning extremes -- hands-on and hands-off. Junior medical students have a lot more hands-off...

Bill was one of those children who suffered the slings and arrows of life early on in childhood. While he was in grade school, Bill’s...

Judgement Scene from Book of the Dead of Hunefer is a 3,300-year-old Egyptian papyrus that has been on display at the British Museum for...

Medical education involves a certain amount of "deconditioning." That process, formal or informal, amounts to removing the protective,...

There are many reasons that I usually choose not to write political opinions for UPSTREAM IDAHO -- this is not one of them. Not that...

In the 1960s, free-range babies were the norm. That was in the days before fetal ultrasound, amniocentesis, and fetal monitoring. Somehow...