[Part I can be found here. Part II can be found here. Part III can be found here. Part IV can be found here.] I can’t remember much about the drive home from the surgery, except that I was tired … Continue reading →
In a recent thread, commenter “Rufus T. Firefly” has made an interesting point about abortion: …[A]t its core it’s not a legal or political issue. I hate that our society has turned it into a political war with slogans, chants … Continue reading →
I’ve never understand the fervent embrace of abortion by some people on the left. Yes, I know the explanations the right tends to give: they’re evil, they love death, they hate children. But although I suppose that’s true of some … Continue reading →
[Part I can be found here. Part II can be found here. Part III can be found here.] Part III ended with my discovery – just a few days before my scheduled Boston surgery with a doctor whose prognostications for … Continue reading →
Is this young woman courageous, or not, or something in-between? I suppose in-between: Carine Hajjar dealt with ideological homogeneity at Harvard University for three-and-a-half years mostly in silence, but in the spring semester of her senior year, she finally came … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is part of a series I’ve done. So far I’ve featured dance teachers Stanley Holden and Finis Jhung. There are plenty more I could write about.] Last night I was musing about the changes in dance in my … Continue reading →
Commenter PA Cat asked me: “How does it feel to have the mask mandate on planes ended?” after learning that I’m now home. So I’ll oblige. I started out yesterday at LAX, which still has a mask mandate even though … Continue reading →
[Part I can be found here. Part II can be found here.] “It’s very possible we won’t be able to remove your cataract,” the renowned cataract surgeon at Mass Eye and Ear repeated, and went on for many minutes in … Continue reading →
Yesterday I happened to be in the neighborhood of the Reagan Library, and so I visited it. I’m not a fan of presidential libraries, although I’ve been to three now. I find them a bit boring, sorry to say. The … Continue reading →
[Part I, which dealt with my iridotomies about fifteen or so years ago, can be found here.] When I left off my story in Part I, about fifteen or so years ago, I’d recently had two iridotomies. The one in … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I’ve decided to write an explanatory piece about my recent eye problems and surgery. It may be long and boring to some, but I think it might be helpful if anyone is going through a similarly confusing time with … Continue reading →
When I read that Robert Morse had died at the age of 90, my first thought was “Drat!” My second thought was, “How could he be 90? Impossible!” Because to me Robert Morse always looked like a kid. Morse rose … Continue reading →