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A First Look at the POLST eRegistry
(9/3/2025) 
I confess to sometimes being drawn down the Reels rabbit-hole of video snippets. The algorithm gives me an odd mix of palliative/end-of-life commentators, the latest political outrages, and brides showing off their dresses in a "First Look" ...
A First Look at the POLST eRegistry


Artificial Intelligence and the Real Thing(s)
(4/9/2025) 
Long ago and far away, I was attending my first major conference as Associate Editor for a publisher of textbooks on artificial intelligence and advanced computer science. We’d just finished arranging our exhibit at the Dallas Merchandise Mart ...
Artificial Intelligence and the Real Thing(s)


If It's Not One Thing It's Ten
(2/11/2025) 
This was a favorite saying of my Missouri-born grandmother. As a teacher of Latin and experimental school administrator, she had a delightful turn of phrase, and this one ...
If It's Not One Thing It's Ten


Celebrating National Gratitude Month
(11/7/2024) 
November is a big month. Besides that very big thing that happened on the 5th, November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, National Home Care and Hospice Month, National Family Caregiver’s Month, National Alzheimer’s Disease Month...
Celebrating National Gratitude Month


A First Look at the POLST eRegistry
(9/3/2025) 
I confess to sometimes being drawn down the Reels rabbit-hole of video snippets. The algorithm gives me an odd mix of palliative/end-of-life commentators, the latest political outrages, and brides showing off their dresses in a "First Look" ...
A First Look at the POLST eRegistry


Artificial Intelligence and the Real Thing(s)
(4/9/2025) 
Long ago and far away, I was attending my first major conference as Associate Editor for a publisher of textbooks on artificial intelligence and advanced computer science. We’d just finished arranging our exhibit at the Dallas Merchandise Mart ...
Artificial Intelligence and the Real Thing(s)


If It's Not One Thing It's Ten
(2/11/2025) 
This was a favorite saying of my Missouri-born grandmother. As a teacher of Latin and experimental school administrator, she had a delightful turn of phrase, and this one ...
If It's Not One Thing It's Ten


Celebrating National Gratitude Month
(11/7/2024) 
November is a big month. Besides that very big thing that happened on the 5th, November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, National Home Care and Hospice Month, National Family Caregiver’s Month, National Alzheimer’s Disease Month...
Celebrating National Gratitude Month