Archive for May, 2020

When We Are At The Bat!

TheDiscipleMD Most of us have, at one time or the other, read or heard a rendition of the tragic baseball poem, “Casey At The Bat.” It was written by Ernest Thayer and was published in the San Francisco Examiner in the year 1888. It tells the tale of a team from Mudville who is losing going into […]

Our Own Private Kryptonite

TheDiscipleMD All of us are familiar with the fictional element “Kryptonite” from the superhero mythos. Kryptonite is the “Achilles heel” of the invulnerable hero we call “Superman.” It is one of the few things that can kill him. As a little boy, I used to follow the “Adventures of Superman” via comic books and through […]

If You Fail, You At Least Fail While Daring Greatly!

TheDiscipleMD “The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.” (Herbert George Wells) In 2006 James E. Faust gave remarks entitled “Beginnings” and gave great counsel on how each hour can be a new beginning for each of us. He quoted […]

My Work At The Pentagon (and other fake stories!)

TheDiscipleMD Every once in a while I wear a sport jacket that has a lapel pin on it of ‘The Pentagon.’ People seem to take note of it because they often bring it up in our conversation. More often than not they will ask if I used to work at ‘The Pentagon.’ I proudly tell […]

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