JoseB Blog

No this is not what you're thinking, this is about religion and God. I am turning 70 this year, am retired, accountable to no one, and no longer need to lay low about my beliefs. If you are very devout, you may not want to read this. Not for any reason other than if you have just one iota of doubt about your faith, it might be upsetting. One thing about my DNA is that I have always been a very skeptical person. In order for me to believe something I have to either see it, or its proof. Probably the one event in my life that profoundly reinforced my skepticism was when I found out the whole Christmas Santa Claus thing was a ruse last year, (ha ha, ok, I was six years old). No, it did not traumatize me in any way. What it did was that I resolved never to be fooled like that again. When I attended church I noticed the similarity between religion and Santa Claus. They are both based upon the reward system. If you are a good boy/girl you'll get presents, and if bad you'll get co...

This is my story of dealing with the deaths of my older brother Macu, my mom, and discovering I had  Crohn disease, all within a three-year period. Starting in my early fifties, probably sometime around the year 2010, it seemed like every autumn I would get these low-grade fevers accompanied by persistent diarrhea that would last for a month or two.  The annoying thing was that it didn't make me sick enough to not work, so I still went to work and just powered through the day best I could. Anyways I could not miss weeks from work. I would end up getting used to living with it as I had no other choice, but it really sapped my energy levels. This went on year after year. Of course, I went to doctors, they ran tests but were never able to determine why I was getting sick. I remember my primary care physician saying that there's definitely something brewing there. In late July of 2016, my brother Macu was sick and needed to be taken to the hospital. I picked him up at his Miami Be...