This is a repub of a 2008 Norm Rooker column. “You’re not dead?!” Just what is the correct response when this is the initial greeting from someone who knew you from back when? The occasion was the 2008 Fire-Rescue Med Conference in Las Vegas. I was attending the national roll […]
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A nugget of Big Medicine for your consideration from Norm Rooker. #92 Just what do you say? Vicki, my bride of 29 years and counting, and I were making good time on Interstate 10 across Alabama on our way to Galveston, Texas. 2012 has been a very active year for […]
Ghosts (part 1) by Norm Rooker How many of you have read Joe Connelly’s 1998 semi-fictional book ‘Bringing Out The Dead’? Joe, a former New York City EMS paramedic, spun a very realistic tale of the dark side of EMS. The parts they don’t tell you about, or at best […]
It’s snowing again just a couple of hours before Vicki, my bride of 28 years & sister paramedic are about to hit the road for a weekend getaway. No big deal, we live in the mountains of southwestern Colorado and knew snow was part of the package when we relocated […]
Intro from Hal: Norm Rooker’s been away from these pages for far too long. He’s back with this classic whitewater ride down the stream-of-consciousness. When Norm reminisces about his early days it primes my own memory machine. So, here’s one that many of my colleagues like to dredge up each […]
A couple of weekends ago I was driving across the New Mexico high desert and singing along with the Village People for all I was worth with a big ole grin on my face and joy in my heart. The reasons were many and involved both past and present. I […]
A couple of weekends ago I was driving across the New Mexico high desert and singing along with the Village People for all I was worth with a big ole grin on my face and joy in my heart. The reasons were many and involved both past and present. I […]
This was the key phrase that averted a minor catastrophe and put the best end to that was playing out to be one of those “you’ll never believe this” mini-dramas at two in the morning last fall, around a tree, in downtown Ouray, Colorado. My bride and I had been […]
It has been a long winter up here in the mountains of southwestern Colorado. 158% of normal snowfall and it’s still coming with another 12-16 inches predicted for tomorrow. I was talking to one of my neighbors this afternoon and he mentioned that he was ready for this winter to […]