Author: Rich Horner
Early Morning at Ward Bayou 8/13/26
Owls Talking to Us Patty and I were out at Ward Bayou the next morning, at the end of the road before sunrise. What a delight! There were at least four owls calling from the heavy canopy of the huge Live Oaks. We could not see them, but we could certainly hear them. Turn your…
An Owl at Ward Bayou 8/12/26
August 12, 2026 Barred Owl Anyone who’s spent time with me in the field or followed MY VIEW, knows how I feel about owls — there is simply nothing quite like coming across one. Yesterday morning Patty and I headed out to Ward Bayou, a little later than usual and already hot. We’d seen plenty…
Through the Flood: AI’s Growing Role in Diagnosis
Essay #3: Living With AI in Healthcare series The Diagnostic Horizon Essay two ended with a promise: this piece turns from the conversation to the data itself — how AI is beginning to read scans, flag lab results, and catch patterns a tired pair of human eyes might miss. That promise runs up against a…
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…
