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Nick Jacobs

OP-ED: Life lessons taught by grandkids

Most of the compliments I get about my articles come with the qualifier, “My favorite stories were about your grandkids.” HereĢƵ the problem: all but one of the kids are pushing hard on adulthood. While I was busy writing stories about them, they were busy growing up. Someday, if my ...

As I approach an age that is significantly older than dirt, I realized that even though I know more about everything, I actually know a lot less about anything. When I was younger, I thought wisdom would be the reward for staying alive this long. Instead, it feels more like a flickering ...

A different shopping experience

My wife has a cold. ThatĢƵ not normal. HereĢƵ the worst part, it is a “Nick cold.” You know, the kind where I usually try to dislodge a lung and crack a few ribs before it finally clears up. But, since this is about me, hereĢƵ where things got miserable. She asked me to go shopping. I ...

Stay local applies to health care too

There is something quietly powerful that happens 24 hours a day, 365 days a year in your community. Every day, hundreds of people walk through the doors of your local hospital and step into a calling that has defined this community for generations. They show up to take care of their neighbors. ...

This morning, I woke up feeling like I shouldn’t bother getting out of bed. My brain felt mushy, my motivation level was somewhere south of nowhere, my eyes were heavy, and, well, you get it. Then I read a post by a wonderful physician friend of mine, Dr. Angela LaSalle. When I was ...

Grammy’s store

My grandmother handed me a nickel, pointed toward the road, and sent me to buy an ice cream cone at a store named GrammyĢƵ. I was 4 1/2 years old. It was a hot, humid summer night, the kind where the porch screen door sticks and even the neighbors’ dogs are too tired to bark. The memory ...