Posts by Calvert F Cazier, PhD, MPH

We started the day with high spirits and high hopes. The first leg of the journey would be easy, right? All we had to do was get 5 adults and 8 children out of a rented countryside villa, onto an Italian train in the middle of nowhere, and head into Rome. What could go wrong?…

This story begins on February 9, 1917, in the one room schoolhouse in Elkhart, Kansas. The Cunningham family lived closer to the school than the other students, so they were given the task of arriving early and getting the old pot-belly coal stove that kept the school warm ready for the day.    Four Cunningham…

Peter, our youngest son, is a man of many talents. It’s hard to say which is his greatest, but perhaps it is his people skills. He has a personality that people enjoy and charms them at the same time.    Peter was famous for using this talent when it came to his mother, my first…

We lived across the street from a beautiful home, and one day, while Anne was walking home from work, she thought, “If that house ever comes up for sale, maybe we should buy it.” Later that evening, as we were sitting at the kitchen table eating dinner, she noticed a For Sale sign on that…

It was a beautiful spring day in Cincinnati, Ohio, and I had been cooped up in meetings in a hotel the entire day. I was tired. I was bored. I needed to get out of that hotel. I needed some fresh air, so I decided to go for a walk and enjoy the pleasantness of…

It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon in May of 2005. I awakened from a nap with a jolt and immediately started arguing with myself. A little voice inside my head was telling me that I needed to go back to school and get a PhD. I immediately told this voice that there was no way…

As a small boy I watched my grandfather shear his sheep. I can still see him grabbing a sheep and setting it down on its hind end with its four legs sticking straight out so he could shear its head, belly, legs, and back. He quickly bundled the wool and threw it up to someone…