Category Archives: Health

Stranded No More

April 26, 2023 – 10:35 am

This coming May I’m getting my honorary membership to the Explorer’s Club. I’m not sure that my qualifications fit those of the other members; astronauts, Himalayan mountaineers, and deep-sea divers. The club was founded Admiral Robert Peary. My grandfather was his post-Arctic doctor in Westbrook, Maine, and his daughter, the Snowbird, was my grandmother’s good […]

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Public Knowledge

April 1, 2023 – 2:37 am

Several years ago the beach resort of Pattaya announced plans to place public urinals along the Beach Road to better serve the nearly five million tourists expected that high season. Most sunbathers piss in the sea and beer drinkers relieved themselves in the bars along the busy road. Everyone else has to hold their water […]

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Lazurus In My Blood

March 30, 2023 – 12:49 pm

Two summers ago in the black night of Brooklyn I spewed several liters of blood into the bathroom tub. After wiping the retch from my face More blood surged from my body. Something was not right. Something was very wrong. I crossed the East River. Inside the NYU’s emergency room. The staff took one look […]

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IRISH TWINS by Peter Nolan Smith

March 17, 2023 – 1:42 pm
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Most Dangerous Drivers in Pattaya

August 19, 2022 – 1:34 pm

I’ve been traveling in Asia over thirty years and have survived a head-on motorcycle crash along the Burma border, a mudslide in Sulawesi, and the chaos of Bangkok traffic. My scariest drive in Thailand was during a blinding rainstorm through the Khao Yai Mountains. Insects smashed into the windscreen and the wipers smeared their bodies […]

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