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The future of American Healthcare

The future of American Healthcare

From a phone call I received today. This student is applying for admission to the College of Pharmacy where I work. HIM: "How do I get my PCAT scores to you?"ME: "You can send me a photocopy of your score report."HIM: "Should I have one…

A Love Story

A Love Story

I shall seek and find you… I shall take you to bed and have my way with you… I will make you ache, shake, and sweat. You will moan and groan. I will make you beg for mercy-beg for me to stop. I will exhaust…

Our dinner on Saturday — a hearty winter menu

Our dinner on Saturday — a hearty winter menu

On Saturday, December 4, 2004, Wendy & I hosted a few people for a ‘let’s roll into the holidays’ dinner at our house. The meal also served as our ‘official’ unveiling of our new dining room (we decided because of the type of entertaining we like to do, that we should switch our large-and-mostly-unused living room with our small-and-often- used dining room).

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HAPPY MOUTH — November 2004

HAPPY MOUTH — November 2004

On November 17th, a group of us (Wendy, Ted, Jay, John, Wendy B, Holly, Ron, Tracy, and Drew) met for the monthly HAPPY MOUTH outing. This month was Ron’s first chance to select the restaurant, and he chose UPSTAR CROW near Newport on the Levee.…

Conversation with a Friend

Conversation with a Friend

[10:24] NICKI:: You weren’t in Philadelphia yesterday, were you?

[10:25] DREW:: Well, not ‘officially’.

[10:25] NICKI:: Snicker.

[10:25] DREW:: Did you see me?

[10:25] NICKI:: I was sure I heard them announce your name over the speakers at the airport.

[10:25] DREW:: Airports tend to do that, even if I’m not in the city.

[10:26] NICKI:: Thus reconfirming that you are, indeed, The Man. The Legend. The DREW.

[10:26] DREW:: Amen, sister. A-MEN.

[10:27] NICKI:: Well, I’m off to shower. Just wanted to see if you were haunting me.

[10:27] DREW:: It’s funny, really… The airports HOPE I’m there, and feel like announcing my name will ‘bring me out of the woodwork’ (their phrase). Curiously, BOTH men and women employees of the airports use this tactic.

[10:27] DREW:: I’ll need to send another memo, I guess.

[10:27] NICKI:: Hmmmmmm. Fascinating!

HAPPY MOUTH — October 2004

HAPPY MOUTH — October 2004

October’s Happy Mouth event was a great deal of fun. A bunch of us went to A Fusion Cafe at Cincinnati Mills for dinner. The food was great — we dined on sushi and other Asian-influenced dishes, all of which were quite tasty. A good…