Fifteen years ago, on a lovely Saturday morning in Tampa, Florida, I parked my rented Ford Focus next to a baseball field. Patricia, her husband Bill and I had been invited to come watch a friend’s son pitch in a Little League game that afternoon. The weather was perfect: high, wispy clouds, not too humid, …
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It was a beautiful sunny midsummer afternoon, perfect for feeding the ducks. My seven year-old niece Crystal was staying with me, and after finishing our lunch of grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup, I loaded my backpack with water and a bag of old bread scraps before setting out for the duck pond at a …
The bright midsummer blue sky of that July afternoon was waiting just for us. Finishing our lunch of grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup, my 7 year-old niece Crystal and I decided to go feed the ducks. First we put our lunch dishes away, and then put on sunscreen, because blue-eyed, blonde Crystal burned easily. …
My doctor just called, and last week’s yearly blood work shows that I have a significant deficiency in Vitamin D. How did this happen? I suspect it’s something to do with having to take a prescription medicine that caused me an uncomfortable sun-related rash while enjoying myself watching a baseball game while on vacation in …