Author: Dennis Ritchie

Emergency! 3

ER Waiting [Use down time to take care of myself] I knew that no one would talk to us for a few minutes. There was too much paperwork and medical history to be done. From the time Suzie and I volunteered at the Ronald McDonald...

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Emergency! 2

First, my apologies. It was not my intention to create a cliff-hanger. I just ran out of caffeine-powered steam. Suzie is home and doing fine. My goal was to talk about ways to deal with an emergency before the memories grew...

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Shark Fighting School

Can You Really Prepare For Disaster? Louis (pronounced Loo-wee) Zamperini, the World War II hero of “Unbroken, A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption” had a feeling something might happen. It...

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Hidden Christmas Tree

The car needed new brakes today. So I borrowed my son’s truck, dropped off the car and, well, trucks go where trucks want to go. I ended up in my favorite canyon (How did the truck know?) and explored the boulders in the...

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