Category Archives: Health

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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CHICKEN MESSIAHS by Peter Nolan Smith

January 31, 2022 – 12:36 pm

Several years ago the media covered a story about rat-infested aGreenwich Village KFC. The stock for Yum Corp, which owns the fast food chain along with Taco Bell, dropped fifty cents on the NYSE with the negative news and I felt bad, because for several years I had been a quality control inspector for KFC […]

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NOTHING BETTER THAN PIZZA by Peter Nolan Smith

August 28, 2021 – 1:37 am

Back in 1995 I left the USA after the death of my younger brother. My plan was to visit the holiest places in Asia. I was a non-believer, but believed this pilgrimage would help Michael’s soul in eternity. By late August I had reached in old Yunnan city of Lijiang in Southern China. My hotel […]

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