Today is International Women’s Day. As an old white guy, let me put my spin on this. I’ve met a lot of strong women in my life. Some as tough as nails and yet still so fragile in stature. A few are worth spending a little time talking about. First is my mother. Broken down with Arthritis her whole adult life, she carried on. Volunteered at Swedish Hospital on weekly...
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Friday October 24th is international Polio Day. It may not mean much to most Americans, since Polio has been gone here in the states for over fifty years. Other parts of the world haven’t been as lucky. In 1985 there were 120 countries with over 300,000 new cases of Polio every year. Last year there were a few hundred cases in a handful of countries. All the cases came...
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Today is world Polio day. This didn’t mean that much to me until I traveled to Africa to do Polio immunizations. My first trip was in 2004 when I visited a clinic that straightened the legs of Polio victims. There were two wards, one for the young girls and one for the boys. There were so many kids in various stages of getting their legs straightened. They would soon be...
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