John

March 10, 2024

Should one pray for healing only versus seeking medical care only?

In my over 40 years as a physician, I’ve had to counsel many patients who have a deep religious faith who wrestle with choosing praying for […]
March 10, 2024

March 10, 1944 – Dad comes down with malaria

The Anzio Beachhead quieted down and took on the characteristics of garrison life. Because Phil and his men spent a lot of time in wet trenches, […]
March 9, 2024

March 9, 1944 – Letters home from the Anzio beachhead

After a long-night’s work, from dusk to first light, on the Anzio beachhead, Dad and his A&P platoon would head back to Regimental Headquarters for breakfast […]
March 8, 2024

March 8, 1944 – Trenchfoot and the smell of death at Anzio

A doom like quality surrounded the Anzio beachhead, and misfortune seemed to loom everywhere for the Dogface Soldiers. One of the most common occupational hazards was […]
March 7, 2024

March 7, 1944 – Rest Camp on Anzio

80 years ago today, my Father got the good news that he and his men were heading for a few days of R&R at at a […]
March 7, 2024

“At First Light” just released in soft cover

What a nice birthday gift I’ve just received. I’ve just learned that my WWII book, At First Light, has been released by Knox Press in soft […]
March 6, 2024

March 6, 1944 – Farm houses and foxholes at Anzio

Throughout this period there were almost nightly actions around the scattered homes that once housed Italian farm families on Mussolini’s Anzio-Nettuno model Fascist farm community. Each […]
March 6, 2024

“Vaccine News You Can Use” for Family Physicians – Winter 2024

I’ve been honored to write a quarterly column, “Vaccine News You Can Use” for the Colorado Family Physician journal for a number of years. Below is […]
November 21, 2019

Anxiety weighs down the heart

So then, banish anxiety from your heart and cast off the troubles of your body. … What do people get for all the toil and anxious […]
November 29, 2019

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins

Do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. … Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to […]
November 29, 2019

I have had a great struggle, and I have won

You have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.
November 30, 2019

Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices

The Lord is righteous; he does no wrong. Every new day he does not fail.
December 2, 2019

Jesus said, “It is finished”

“I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do.”
December 6, 2019

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer

He is the LORD; let him do what is good in his eyes. … Though I were innocent, I could not answer him; I could only […]