Author: Edwin

Christmas emotions

I guess everyone who ever loved Christmas struggles with it at some point. I grew up loving it, and still do. But I probably invest too much emotion into what I should feel. Should is always dangerous. What I should feel,...

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Squirrel Hunting

My nine-year-old and I went squirrel hunting for the first time this season. Like most of my hunting trips in South Carolina, it involved walking through lots of blackberry thickets, looking for squirrels that had gone far away...

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Election

So, God woke up the day after the election and had his coffee. Gabriel brought him the USA Today. He spewed out his coffee, and said, ‘What? I can’t believe it! How did this happen?’ OK, probably not....

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Meddling

I just found out that yet again, one our acquaintances is leaving his wife for another woman. Once more, a family goes down in flames. I saw him in passing the other day and smiled, said hello, and went my way. We aren’t c...

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Pets?

Yet again, our emergency department was host to an individual who was bitten by his pet rattlesnake. I could go on and on about the financial implications of such a thing, since he required very expensive antivenin and had no...

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