Last summer when interviewing for this position I hopped off the plane with the temperatures near 100 (of course it was a ‘dry’ heat). Folks in Las Cruces jokingly asked what I thought of the weather (what they didn’t know was that I left Carbondale and it was 98 degrees with humidity nearing 80%–we call [...]
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It's a Bitch Getting Old
Normally I like to blog something on Monday but it’s been a tough weekend for me so I had to delay it until today. Southern Illinois has a 20 plus year tradition of an event called River-to-River Relay. It’s an 80 mile distance from the Mississippi River to the Ohio River, in which 8 runners [...]
The political dream
High office is just 3 steps away!!
Payback's a Bitch!
In early December I decided to do my Christmas shopping for my wife–so as is a tradition with me I got on-line and got it done in 20 minutes. I decided to purchase my wife an IPOD Nano. Sure, I could have paid full price at our local Best Buy, but I’m somewhat a cheapskate [...]
HEDIR Bookstore
- Social Gerontology: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (9th Edition)
- Essentials of Environmental Health (Essential Public Health)
- Street Science: Community Knowledge and Environmental Health Justice (Urban and Industrial Environments)
- Study Guide to Accompany Our Global Environment: A Health Perspective


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