Author: Rich Horner
Opening our minds, our eyes, our hearts we could grow and learn… We could be truer to ourselves
We have the propensity to: See what we want to see… Hear what we want to hear… Believe what we want to beleave… Reject what we don’t want to be… We have the ability to See what is there… Hear what is said… Believe what is factual… Reject what is deceptive… Both our propensity and…
The Turning Screen: AI’s Growing Role in the U.S. Exam Room
Essay #2: Living With AI in Healthcare series August 7, 2026 The Turning Screen Essay one ended with a promise: this piece turns to the exam room, and to what AI means for the time doctors spend looking at a screen instead of a patient. That screen is worth picturing clearly. Walk into almost any…
Windy Coast
A few weeks ago a storm was moving just off the coast — it’s been dry here again and we were hoping it would come ashore, but all it brought us was wind. Whenever there’s an offshore storm, or one pushing up from the south, Patty wants to drive the coast watching for birds driven…
Tall Pea Pickin & Shelling at Ray & Terry’s
August 4, 2026 A wonderful evening with the Latimarians Click any image to view full size and browse the gallery. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” Marcel Proust – From his early literary collection titled “Les Plaisirs et les Jours”…
Feeling Nature
Goodbye July 2026 – “It’s already a three-shirt morning.” Some days the conditions are just right — hot and humid, heavy low clouds, the wind gone still. On mornings like this you can feel the quiet and almost touch the moisture in the air. It feels like stepping back in time. Click any image to…
The Invisible Back Office: AI’s Growing Role in U.S. Healthcare Administration
Essay 1: Living With AI in Healthcare August 3, 2026 A note before reading: when artificial intelligence in medicine makes the news, the stories almost always focus on the futuristic edge — robotic surgeries, AI algorithms making complex diagnoses, or software attempting to act as a digital doctor. Those stories are real, and this series…
A Therapeutic Trip to Ward Bayou
July 28, 2026 Patty came home from Alaska, exhausted, but feeling fine, but a few days later — whether it was the plane rides, the airports, or a crowded eye appointment after she got back — she came down with a miserable summer cold. One of those where you are miserable one day, the next…
Prothonotary Warblers & Others
July 21, 2026 On Tuesday, Patty and I went to Ward Bayou again, with her chair on the back. When you first enter Ward Bayou, you’re headed due east, and on a bright morning you can’t see a thing. It’s tough driving to the end of the road because Patty hears birds and wants to…
Ward Bayou – July 17, 2026
July 20, 2026 I rarely go birding without Patty but she was in Alaska birding and I needed to get out of the house and use my camera. I arrived at Ward Bayou at daylight, and it started with a young hawk who seemed genuinely curious about me — cooperative in a way that made…
The Promise and the Distance: 4-What Fusion Energy Actually Is Today
July14, 2026 Every energy source in this series has involved burning something, splitting something, or capturing something that already exists — oil, sunlight, heat from the earth, hydrogen separated from water. Fusion is different in kind, not just degree. It asks whether we can replicate on Earth the process that powers the sun itself: forcing…
