Author: John Ingram Walker, MD

If you enjoy challenging yourself with New Year Resolutions contemplate these five questions: Assuming you had a billion dollars how would you use it? Assuming you had all the time

The Christmas Spirit doesn’t change things. It changes the way we look at things.Instead of appearing when we ask for it, or when we expect it or when we pray

Almost all of us, at one time or another, have had a fleeting experience of ecstatic joy. A measure of music, the look of a child, a recalled memory, a 

Thinking begins with listening to ideas from all viewpoints. The challenge for me is this: When I hear  thoughts that conflict with mine I have a tendency to get angry instead

A few days ago I wrote about finding a name for our four-person reading group. Initially I decided to call us the 4-winds after the four characters–mole, rat, badger and

I am trying to think a name for our reading group. Sort of like the Inklings, an informal discussion group that included C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and

Two articles well worth reading in the December 11, 2017 Sports Illustrated honor Houstonians J. J. Watt and Jose Altuve as Sportspersons of the Year. For those who took an

I just received an interesting question on medication vs. management skills for college students. When do students deserve medication for stress and when would students benefit from management skills training?

This morning became the happiest day of the year when Vicki told me that we would be alone for Christmas. Wende and family were going to his parents in Derry,

Those considering a ski trip over the holidays should follow these rules before making reservations. Visit your local butcher and pay him $10,000 to sit in the freezer. Drive around

Yesterday I was doing an Goggle search on Marcel Proust when, somehow, I stumbled across the  Yes-Virginia-There-Is-A-Santa-Claus editorial that I subsequently posted. I have always been interested in people who impact

On a snow-filled day in 1897 a little girl wrote a letter to the editor of The New York Sun: Dear Editor,I am 8 years old. Some of my friends