Posts by Calvert F Cazier, PhD, MPH

Have you ever wondered if miracles still happen? Well, I can’t speak for you, but I can tell you that Anne and I experienced a miracle that we very much appreciated. It revived my trust in the honesty and goodness of people. In fact, I know that the woman responsible for this miracle could have…

It was the middle of February, and the weather was not conducive for walking outside. I went to a nearby indoor track and planned on walking for an hour to an hour and a half, depending on how I felt when I finished the first hour.I arrived at the gym excited and ready to get…

In 1964, Goldwyn-Mayer released “The Unsinkable Molly Brown,” a film starring Debbie Reynolds. This fictionalized biopic movie is based on the life of Margaret “Molly” Brown, born into the John and Johanna Tobin family of Hannibal, Missouri in 1867. The movie starts with a scene in which Molly, her father, and brothers return home from a fishing…

As a student in elementary, junior high, and high school I was at best an average student. I earned mostly C’s, some B’s, a few D’s, and occasionally an ‘A’. While I got a few E’s on tests and some class assignments, I don’t ever remember getting one on my report card. One term in…

My father grew up on a farm in Afton, Wyoming where it was not uncommon for the temperature to reach 30 to 40 degrees below zero during the winter. In fact, it would get so cold that a sneeze would freeze inside a person’s nose and stay there until the spring thaw. When Dad was a senior…

I was never a very good student and honestly believed I wasn’t capable of getting good grades, but I had one teacher who made a significant difference in my life. She was my fifth-grade teacher, and her name was Mrs. Bouck. In many ways she was quirky and unconventional with her methods, but she helped…

Some time ago I read the following story. I don’t know where I read it or who wrote it. I have taken a few liberties with it but to the best of my recollection it goes something like this.​​There was a mouse who lived in the walls of a farmhouse with a farmer and his…