Blogging has been lighter...

...than usual due to a family emergency. I've been spending much of the last week at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. I'll have more to say about my experience there, but in the meantime I can share two thoughts:

(1) While most of the doctors nowadays seem to be women, most of the nurses seem to be men; and

(2) Even if the doctor who is about to perform a crucial procedure on your son bears a striking resemblance to Willie Nelson, don't -- repeat, don't -- ask him if he's "kind of a hippie doctor." (You may feel a little like Jerry Seinfeld did when he tried to arrange a wake-up call for his marathoner friend, Jean Paul: "I think I just alienated the wake-up guy!")