When January rolls around, it’s time for me to put away Christmas decorations, make—and all too often, break—some New Year’s resolutions, send off birthday greetings to a few friends and relatives, pause to remember the woman, now deceased but still beloved, who became my wife in January of 1978, and brace up for at least another two months of cold weather.
It’s also time for my annual physical.
My Friend Sam
My physician—I’ll call him Sam—practices medicine in Asheville, North Carolina. Though I moved to Front Royal, Virginia, over three years ago, I still make an annual trek to Asheville for my physical because of my respect for Sam’s abilities.
Jeff Minick
Author
Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
