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George Karl’s Cancer Comeback

I have observed him from afar for 40 years while we’ve shared some common experiences. Can a third one have a happy ending?

To my mind, George Karl, veteran NBA basketball coach is a winner. He’s tenacious. I saw that in him when, in the early ’70’s, he played basketball in college at The [...]

How Personal Pain Leads to Medical Dedication

The old joke about psychological therapists is they are among the biggest consumers of therapy themselves. Lately, I have been noticing more and more how a significant portion of the people we meet wearing white lab coats have a very personal connection to the medical work they do. For them it is not a job, [...]

Crash, Smash, Crack: It’s Concussion Season Again

I have a lofty position. No, I am not an ego maniac. I am talking about my perch in the announcer’s booth at “The Jungle,” Mercer Island, Washington’s high school football stadium. That’s where I spend a few hours on some Saturday afternoons this fall “calling” the games that my 13-year-old son, Eitan, plays in. [...]

Resisting the Hidden, and Sometimes, Heavy Hand of Public Relations

In recent years advertising agencies and public relations firms, many of them small shops run by dedicated communications entrepreneurs, have been gobbled up by marketing communications behemoths. These are the global conglomerates that work day and night to win you and me over as friends and customers. They want us to think positively about their [...]