Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘cachexia’

Without resolve, all is lost

I’m reading the reports on the fall of the key Iraqi city of Ramadi. If true, they’re absolutely horrifying. Not because this means the end of everything; the Islamic State will be defeated in time. What’s so awful is the apparent lack of resolve among even the best of Iraq’s armed forces. People think that…

 

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Just a reminder of what happens

Here’s a reminder of what happens to people who continually attack me. 1. An Australian Web designer used my money to eat at expensive restaurants, where she photographed the meals. She also threw parties, at which she photographed the food. I discovered this after she missed every deadline in our contract. My father died February…

 

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The reason my mother died

First, a disclaimer. This post is not an attack on the Catholic church or my maternal grandparents. Nobody intended for my mother to suffer or to be so badly damaged that it killed her eighty years later. There was no malice involved in the decisions made about where Mom would go and how she would…

 

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