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  • Cold rain, warm heart.

    When I came out on to Market Street, I saw that it had started to rain during the two and a half hours I’d been in the dentist chair.  It was about quarter to five and Friday evening traffic was heavy.  A dark, wet early December end of the work week. I walked down 38th…

  • Out of the fire into the frying pan

    Southfield, Michigan.  Anne Mei and I braved the wilds of Newark Airport today to fly to Detroit ahead of the blizzard that’s hitting the New York area.  Newark Airport was crazy because everyone else was trying to get out of town before everything shuts down.  All flights were overbooked.  Actually, I take that back.  The…

  • They have cast off restraint in my presence. Job 30:11

    In the period just before she entered hospice, I heard Laura ask visitors if they’d heard about the “three kiss-offs” she’d received from her doctors.  An earlier post describes the meetings when her surgeon, radiation oncologist, and oncologist told her that there was nothing more they could do for her,. As I’ve said about many of Laura’s statements, I could be really…

  • Archive of posts by category

    Posts are found under each category in bold.  If you click on the title listed here, the link will take you to that post. Introduction to the themes of these posts Reading and Scribbling. Unfinished houses Reading and scribbling: the story Nouns and verbs Detritus in the road Aristotle gave Herclitus a bum rap Stupid To…