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What is it about the number 7 that is so unique?
Bridgman, MI—There are seven wonders of the world. Seven deadly sins. Seven colors in the rainbow. Seven swans a swimming. Seven dwarves....
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Lessons from Everyday Life
By Theodore Lewis
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- Oct 15
And thereafter a lasting friendship blossomed
Bridgman, MI—In the last line of the movie “Casablanca,” Rick says; "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."...
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- Sep 9
In good company: Recollecting my 'winning team' experience
Bridgman, MI—My first recollection of a “Winning Team Experience” was the 1957 World Champion Detroit Lions. This is one of the first...
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- Aug 5
A single strawberry speaks volumes
Bridgman, MI—The strawberry to me has always been a symbol of love, friendship, goodness, and of course, deliciousness. Growing up in...
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- Jul 6
Embracing the brave old world after Typhoon Mawar
Bridgman, MI— Ten days after typhoon Mawar devastated Guam, I saw a picture of one of my educator friends there reading a book outside...
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- Jun 18
Finding solutions
Bridgman, MI— During my time on Guam, I got to know several healthcare workers in the Philippines, and learned of the talent and huge...
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- May 30
Being scared
Bridgman, MI--This Mawar Typhoon that just passed through Guam (more than 3,000 miles west of Hawaii) had me on pins and needles. I have...
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- May 11
Workers in demand
Bridgman, MI—On a windy, blustery day this March in Southwest Michigan, my wife Sharon and I decided to go out for brunch at our favorite...
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- Apr 8
When darkness turns to light
Bridgman, MI—In June 1958, I had just completed first grade after my parents moved to Holly, MI, about 45 miles northwest of Detroit. One...
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- Mar 5
Cruising through Bermuda Triangle
Bridgman, MI—When Sharon and I married in 2004, we planned our honeymoon to be on a 13-day Grand Holiday Caribbean Cruise of the Cunard...
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- Feb 12
For whom the bells rang
Bridgman, MI—Within the first few months of my tenure as CEO at Parkview Hospital in Brunswick, Maine, things were going marvelously...
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- Jan 7
Searching for love at the Re/Max balloon
Bridgman, MI— After going through a divorce in Louisiana when I moved to Maine as CEO of Parkview in 2002, one of my personal goals was...
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- Dec 3, 2022
The ‘extra man’
Bridgman, MI—It was an overcast and chilly November afternoon in Pontiac, Michigan in 1981 as my nephew Michael and I neared the Pontiac...
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- Nov 4, 2022
A lesson learned
Bridgman, MI—My first job in a hospital was a summer position at Madison Hospital. Back then it was a full-service faith-based community...
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- Oct 8, 2022
The 'apple principle'
Bridgman, MI—It is apple time in Michigan. According to the Michigan Apple Committee, during the apple harvest season of 2022, more than...
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- Sep 4, 2022
Boxes of memories
My wife and I recently moved from Maine to Michigan. I hate the process of moving, especially when you must go through all your stuff in...
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- Aug 11, 2022
The unfinished song
Portland, Maine— Back in days gone by when I was growing up in Holly, Michigan, a highlight of each summer was the annual 10-day...
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- Jul 8, 2022
Just like that, life can change
Portland, Maine—After graduating from Adelphian Academy, a Seventh Day Adventist secondary school in Holly, MI, I felt on top of the...
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- Jun 11, 2022
Sometimes they just need a hug
Portland, Maine— It was a beautiful spring day in Pasadena, California. The wisteria and lilacs were blooming, the air was crisp and the...
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- May 7, 2022
Breaking a leg
Portland, Maine—Recently, after reconnecting with the good folks at Dockerty Health Care in Michigan, I decided to give them "a leg up"...
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- Apr 2, 2022
‘Who dey?’ $4 Super Bowl ticket, anyone?
Watching this year's exciting Super Bowl with the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams reminded me of my attendance at Super Bowl XVI...
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- Mar 5, 2022
Miles to go before we sleep
Portland, Maine— On Dec. 31, 2021, I woke up with a hopeful feeling. After the deaths of three good friends in 2021, I was looking...
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- Feb 13, 2022
America’s most critical shortage
Portland, Maine — Almost every industry in the U.S. today is dealing with a shortage of workers. The delta and omicron variants are...
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- Jan 9, 2022
Whatever it takes: the virtue of resourcefulness
Portland, Maine—I had just received my first hospital assignment at Leland Memorial Hospital in Riverdale, Maryland (just north of D.C....
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- Dec 12, 2021
It ain’t easy being nice
Portland, Maine-- At our favorite breakfast restaurant here in Portland, one of the better wait staff just walked off the job, blurting...
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- Nov 7, 2021
The ginger ale trail
Portland, Maine— My wife Sharon and I just completed our first road trip since the start of the pandemic. The distance between South...
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- Oct 8, 2021
When the prayer is answered in a roundabout way
Portland, Maine – Growing up in a home of faith facilitated my belief in God at an early age. My father, a great English teacher, writer,...
By Theodore Lewis
- Sep 8, 2021
A smile that can change the world
Portland, Maine—The day after attending the “Three Tenors Concert” in the historic Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan in July 1999, I...
By Theodore Lewis
- Aug 8, 2021
Warm weather, warm people, sweat-soaked shirt and déjà vu
Portland, Maine— Traveling for the first time since the pandemic, my wife and I booked a flight down to the Maryland-DC area. Prior to...
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- Jul 5, 2021
Hope for Guam's health care
Having another hospital in Guam's medical portfolio has brought several advantages to the island’s residents At the end of 2019 prior to...
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- Jun 5, 2021
A new promised land
I'm tired of wearing a mask. I'm tired of social distancing. I miss New York's Broadway.I miss breakfasts at First Light in Scarborough....
By Theodore Lewis
- May 4, 2021
Hong Kong heart attack
Hong Kong. That mystical place where east meets west. That unique history-filled beautiful territory owned by the British for 100 years...
By Theodore Lewis
- Apr 5, 2021
Almost famous
Portland, Maine — I had my first introduction to fame in 1977 during our Andrews University Band trip to Romania, where concert-goers —...
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- Feb 3, 2021
An angel in Bucharest
Portland, Maine — My participation as part of a musical group began in my high school band days at Adelphian Academy in Holly, Michigan,...
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- Jan 6, 2021
Death takes a life— but not a friend
The 2019 holiday season was inspiring, festive and full of good cheer. 2020? Not so much. Starting at Thanksgiving and ending on New...
By Theodore Lewis
- Nov 1, 2020
The Beatles’ antidote to rifts and tiffs
Portland, Maine— On this gorgeous fall Sunday in Southern Maine, my wife and I enjoyed our first cup of coffee and flipped on the TV to...
By Theodore Lewis
- Sep 9, 2020
A wedding and a funeral: a tale of two paradises
Portland, Maine-- Two of my favorite places, Guam and Maine, both had their first confirmed case of Covid-19 around Friday the 13th of...
By Theodore Lewis
- Sep 1, 2020
Passing the buck
Portland, Maine— A Johns Hopkins’ study published in 2016 estimated there are at least 250,000 annual deaths in U.S. hospitals related to...
By Theodore Lewis
- Aug 2, 2020
An unforgettable adventure
During the time of Covid-19, most of us have had significant increases in our average time spent watching TV, Netflix, Hulu, etc. A...
By Theodore Lewis
- Jun 2, 2020
When a mustard seed moved a mountain
Portland, Maine— In this unusual time of great need for physical healing, jobs, financial help, and, in many cases, food on the table...
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- May 2, 2020
Reflection on time left
Portland, Maine — Let's face it, anyone over 40 has been thinking, even if remotely, what if? What if I test positive? The older we are,...
By Theodore Lewis
- Apr 3, 2020
The virtue of forgiveness (Part 2)
"Never does the human soul appear so strong when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.” - Edwin Hubbell Chapina In Part One...
By Theodore Lewis
- Mar 30, 2020
What about tomorrow?
Portland Maine--Last night one of our neighbor families got into a real loud fight. The husband was yelling, the children were crying,...
By Theodore Lewis
- Mar 16, 2020
Friday, the 13th
Portland, Maine--Where America's day begins and begins. Guam, a U.S. territory, west of the international dateline likes to say that this...
By Theodore Lewis
- Mar 4, 2020
Vengeance is mine?
Portland, Maine — It is only human that when an injustice occurs to us, we want to get revenge. However, my father taught me the biblical...
By Theodore Lewis
- Feb 5, 2020
Prepare for a ‘very senior tsunami’
The first wave of a powerful tsunami has already reached Guam, and the second and third waves are on their way with exponentially...
By Theodore Lewis
- Jan 26, 2020
The Super Bowl of all Super Bowls
Portland, Maine— Congrats to Kansas City Chief and San Francisco 49er fans. Your teams have had a phenomenal year and this will be an...
By Theodore Lewis
- Dec 2, 2019
Impossible is nothing
Portland, Maine — I was fresh out of receiving my MBA from the School of Business at Andrews University. After spending a year or so...
By Theodore Lewis
- Nov 2, 2019
Falling from grace aboard the QE2
Portland, Maine—In 1990 I enjoyed my first cruise aboard the QE2 (Cunard ship Queen Elizabeth II). What a classic ship and what a great...
By Theodore Lewis
- Oct 3, 2019
How a Manila heart surgeon helped save Maine Hospital
Portland, Maine — In last month’s column about legendary physicians, I was reminded about the talents of Dr. Jorge Garcia, heart surgeon...
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