Commenter Tom Grey has a suggestion for me: that I move to Substack. It’s not the first time someone has made that suggestion, either. A week or so ago I went to Substack and began to read up on what … Continue reading →
[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 →