Gary's Having A Weird Day

Why is this page here? It's my mental health page. When I am having a weird day (that could be good or bad) I usually write about it. Here goes, hang on to your hats.

• Peter's Future - My grandson Peter's silly karate moves and my fears about bullies and how he will handle the cold, cruel world. (15 September 2008)
• A Father, a Son, and a Man on the Run - My son and I find an unusual way to bond. (5 December 2007)
• SSG Patrick J Henry - One of my heroes from my deployment to Iraq. (14 June 2007)
• Home - I'm home from Iraq but not yet "home". (13 June 2007)
• Ahmed's Kelb (Dog) - A young Iraqi boy loses his dog through a careless act by an American patrol but gets help from those he thought was his enemy. (7 FEB 2007)
• Pie: It's a Game - In Iraq I think of a game I played when I was a kid - weird, huh? (5-14-2006)
• Kuwait - Emphasizing WAIT! My deployment to Iraq begins finally but still in that holding pattern (but much closer). (4-26-2006)
• A Brave New World: Without Down Syndrome - A new test detects Down Syndrome earlier. Can you guess what that means? (11-30-2005)
• A Duck on the Highway - What a weird thing to see and what a weird way for God to open my heart. (9-26-2005)
• Running - In a month's time I went from a couch potato to a two-miler! Woo-hoo! (4-29-2005)
• Are You Thisty? - Terri Schiavo is and has been since March 18, 2005. (3-21-2005)
• When Smart People Tell Jokes Will We Understand Them? - No. Here are some jokes we just cannot "get" - but then would we really want to? (1-27-2005)
• You Must See Napolean Dynamite! - A movie review of the comedy of the year that you probably never heard of. (1-6-2005)
• Help Gary Join the National Guard - My quest to serve my country. (12-25-2004)
• Don't You Just Love Davey and Goliath? - Davey and Goliath was a TV show that was on back in the 1960's or so. I apologize ahead of time. (11-24-2004)
• Slippery Slopes and Children with Disabilities - Euthanasia and autism. (9-20-2004)
• Ronald Wilson Reagan: A Man For Us All - My tribute to the greatest President of our times. (6-6-2004)
• The Real Abu Ghraib Prisoner Abuse Story - If you are tired of bad news from Iraq, how about a story with a happy ending? (5-21-2004)
• 96 Tears - Life is hard but there is hope! (4-20-2004)
• Today's News - April Fool's Day brings news that is anything but funny. (4-1-2004)
• Judas, the Hero? - My comments on the TV movie, Judas, which showed on ABC on March 8, 2004. "I know Jesus. Jesus is a Friend of mine. But this Jesus is not Jesus!" (3-9-2004)
• The Passion of the Christ: Before and After - My comments on The Passion of the Christ before and after viewing it (2-26-2004).
• Who Killed Jesus? - My comments on the Mel Gibson movie, The Passion of the Christ (2-13-2004).
• Christmas Eve 2003: Where'd Everybody Go? - Reflections on the worth of what we do and how a five year with autism old puts it all in perspective (12-24-2003).
• My Colonoscopy - My over-50 story about the amazing colon and my personal colonoscopy. Caution: do not read before lunch (12-1-2003).
• Mr. Zhang Yi-nan: "A man nothing like me" - Mr. Zhang Yi-nan is a Christian who was recently arrested in China for praying that the "atheistic strongholds in China would be destroyed." Read about him and how he is nothing like me (11-4-2003).
• James Philip Heffner: "A man of unsavory reputation" - One of my passions is genealogy. However, in looking into the Heffner  family I was stuck on my great-grandfather, James. Nobody in the family knew anything about him until a contact in Colorado gave me a tip about him. This little history is the result (10-30-2003).
• The Mourning Doves - A bird hits my window at work and I am led to write about the lesson it teaches (6-6-2003).