Author: John Ingram Walker, MD

Because most of my readers reside in the age group that begins to worry about memory loss, I have decided to write a series of essays on Alzheimer’s Disease. Alzheimer’s disease

In 1637 Pierre de Fermat wrote in the margin of Diophantus’s Arithmetica the statement that would puzzle some of the world’s greatest mathematicians for over three centuries: It is impossible to write

Deep in each of us resides the awareness that something knows we exist.  The Holy Spirit is with us all the time. But we block it out with fast living,

Wow!!!!!!! He comes across as the prototypical Wally Cox, if you are old enough to remember the TV character. Indeed, he sort of looks like him. Very modest. Humble. Soft

How wondrous a stream bridge coveredBeneath blended greens bright red colored. Floating memories come and go As underneath rocky waters flow.

At my recent high school class reunion I had a vivid recollection of a past memory known as a  “Proustian moment.” Here is how Proust described his moment: No sooner

An apocryphal story has been traveling across the Internet. You may have read or heard it: Two shoe salesmen were given a new territory on a Pacific island. Immediately upon

To experience a balanced life AVOID FACEBOOK EXCESS. Facebook is more addicting than Oxycontin. More stimulating than cocaine. And sometimes more satisfying than chocolates and ice cream. But it can

I am writing an essay on my 55th high school class reunion and since I haven’t posted in several weeks I am concerned that I will lose my blog followers.

Sometimes when we look back through the window of time we see visions of immeasurable joy. They are joys that we carry in our hearts, but to which we may

The Texas we knew then Is not the Texas we know now Drifted away we don’t know when Faded away we don’t know how Friday night football still the game

Upon my return for our 55th Lufkin High School reunion I wrote this ditty. (TS Eliot beware.) If a 1962 LHS graduate will write the music, the LHS choir will