Category Archives: Health

Black Plague 2040

March 12, 2020 – 6:58 am

Back in 2008 the world experienced an economic collapse due to the greed of the banks. Traffic on Sukhumvit reached a catastrophic density, food prices rose beyond the reach of many people, gas neared 40 baht a liter. Financial pundits on CNN and Fox News argued for saving the banks. I favored their complete failure, […]

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COVID-19 Symptoms

March 11, 2020 – 10:14 am

Symptoms The illness associated with a diagnosis of COVID-19 ranges from very mild, including no reported symptoms, to very severe, including death. The CDC says older people and people of all ages with severe underlying health conditions, such as heart disease, diabetes, or lung disease, are at higher risk of experiencing serious complications from coronavirus. […]

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WORLD AIDS DAY

December 1, 2019 – 4:42 am

My baby brother Michael Charles Smith. Gone sixteen years. Forever with us. World AIDS Day. It’s for all of us and all of them

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Fat is Beautiful for Feminists

October 2, 2019 – 7:28 pm

Several summers ago Jamie Parker drove up on his motorcycle from Pattaya to Sriracha. Mutual friends back in the States had been casting aspersions against the paternity of my son. Mam had heard the same from her family. She offered to submit Fenway to a DNA test. I wasn’t having any part of it. I […]

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Doctor Me

September 24, 2019 – 8:15 pm

Hypochondria struck me at an early age after reading a Maryknoll missionary magazine showing a photo of a young boy wearing a metal contraption to walk. I feared that an unnamed ailment would take away by legs and I’d be a tin boy. Every small cut was examined for gangrene and each fever was a […]

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