I am a forty-five year old guy. Apparently, amongst the awards one wins when getting along to this age, is a recommended first preventive colonoscopy. My anxiety about this process, including all the attendant activities and experiences, will apparently overwhelm today and tomorrow. It is now 5:47pm. I figured, I may as well document a …
I am sitting at Holger’s soccer practice. I made a note a week ago to write a blogpost about some recent activities. I have been thinking about the recent losses of people that were present for me during different times in my life: my high school friend, Dan Becker, my college friend, Matt Shaner, and …
I had a great conversation with some friends and colleagues earlier about the role MRF files might play into the practice of healthcare policy from numerous standpoints. We also explored the challenges native to these efforts. We also investigated the work of researchers in this space. I think there is a good opportunity to contribute …
Dear Mayor Nanes and State College Borough Council: I am a resident of the Borough of State College. Please find this letter in response to the meeting held on November 20, 2023. I commend the Council for withdrawing from consideration Resolution 1371. This decision, guided by a principle of “do no harm,” was a prudent …
Our family enjoyed a few weeks of vacation on Bornholm. As we were milling around, a handful of ideas for future blogposts occurred to me; I also took tons of photographs. I thought I would share some of these pictures, and summaries of potential blogposts, here. Bornholm is a small island in the Baltic Sea, …
If the cell is the basic unit of life – the living tool that forms the organism – then what is it “designed” to do? Well, first it has evolved to be autonomous, to survive as an independent living unit. This autonomy depends, in turn, on organization – on the cell’s interior anatomy. A cell …
And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shackAnd you may find yourself in another part of the worldAnd you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobileAnd you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wifeAnd you may ask yourselfWell…How did I get here? David Byrne, Once In …
Things in State College are good. I have previewed on this blog that I am establishing a new advisory firm, in addition to my consultancy with ThorCo. My partner and I have been adding some nice clients and are pleased to see the pipeline full from our own relationships and referrals from past clients and …
While business people generally know the fourth quarter of every year as “Q4,” health benefits professionals, in particular, observe a disproportionate share of work during this period that probably seems most analogous to the workload of a CPA as April 15 approaches. When you consider Q4 as the renewal months of November, December, and January, …
I woke up this Labor Day thinking about the good fortune conferred on those of us living in the developed world. As an American, I am grateful for the good fortune to be born in New Jersey, to live in Pennsylvania, and have the opportunity to raise our children in a nice community and school …