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Colonoscopy: Part II
I’d call myself—among other things—a nervous urinator. By this, I mean that whenever I’m a bit anxious, whether it be leading up to giving a talk before a large audience, getting ready to run a half marathon, or sometimes even before going to bed (what?), I feel as if I have to go to the…
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Colonoscopy: Part I
Before I tell you about a recent colonoscopy procedure I had done, I want to tell you about an idea I have for a story that I’d call “Modern Medicine.” There’s this guy (hmmm, this is starting to feel very autobiographical) who had blood in his stool a couple times. He’s pretty sure that he…
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Fear and Writing
A friend of mine wrote to me scared about an opportunity he has in that his girlfriend is going away for 21 days and he has practically the whole time to himself to write. He’s wanted to write more but he suspects that he might instead sit around in his underwear, let the dishes pile…
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An Argument For Church From Someone Who Doesn’t Go
My father-in-law Jim recently passed away from cancer. Several weeks before his death, my wife received a call that her dad had checked into hospice. We began packing immediately and drove 800 miles through the night to North Carolina so that we could be sure to see him as soon as possible. In addition to…