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PAUL E NELSON

More Walking the Arboretum with Jim Demetre

A second and, hopefully, shorter post about my walk with Jim Demetre at Washington Park Arboretum. What a place this is and late winter is one of the most inspiring times to go, giving those who have survived a long winter the hope that the groundhog is wrong and...

Walking the Arboretum in Winter with Jim

Each morning I look over last year’s journal entry for the same day and it had been a year since I walked through Washington Park Arboretum with Jim Demetre. Jim’s an amateur botanist whom I met during The Long Walk in 2011, and we’ve kept in touch...

Shave and a Slight Cut, $10K

So I have to tell the story of finding out about my surgery date for the two, count ‘em, TWO hernias I have being diagnosed with. (A bilateral inguinal hernia and an abdominal hernia.) I got a call from the nurse yesterday. Let’s call her Joanie. She told me I should...