woody's world

I was botany graduate student living in a douche bag apartment off of Red Road in Miami. I worked hard and partied hard. Saturday morn...

U.S. Consulate Buildings Burn in Libia I know many Muslims are peace-loving people who just want to get on with their own lives. But...

I was just finishing up the leek and potato soup, having a sit and listening to a retrospective of 9/11, and someone was asked where he...

  Let’s get this straight from the get-go: the people who died, or were injured or were the heroes that worked the sites should forever ...

  I had a chance this morning to reread “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost (1). A small poem full of promise and words to make us...

In 2008, a young man was driving along a country road when his life was changed forever. An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) detonated ...

Sal and Woody, only younger Over the weekend we, Sal and I, got together with an old friend to celebrate his 84 th birthday. He is sho...

Boomers have 5 times the rate of infection of Hepatitis C than the rest of the population (1). They die in disproportionate numbers from...

An old friend sent me a column by Chris Hedges (1) with this note: “ I thought of you when I read this this morning. Our old conversation ...

It is almost that time again. Almost time to give up, again. Yes, I have given up before, and once even gave up giving up ( http://www.blo...