This journal is mostly public because most of it contains poetry, quotations, pictures, jokes, videos, and news (medical and otherwise). If you like what you see, you are welcome to drop by, anytime. I update frequently.
As there have been numerous things--personal, professional, country-wide, in several other countries, and world-wide, that do not fill me with optimism--and I know many others feel similarly--
I thought I'd share two of my longtime favorite poems: