A Little Morning Zen
We learn, as adults, to plan ahead: Organize your life, be productive, use your time wisely. Get an education, get a job, get a better job, have children, have more children, buy a house, buy a better house. And in those middle, sandwich years, it’s generally...Old Friends
Perhaps everyone has a moment like this. Perhaps not. In any case, this is mine. So, two days ago, I decided on a whim to look up a boy I used to know fifty-some odd years ago in college. I do things like this periodically, but not too often. I...Lemonade
About two months ago, the New York Times had a wonderful video on Jocelyn Bell, the Irish astronomer who discovered pulsars, rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit regular pulses of radio waves....Every Day is Covid Day
My husband got his first shot through U of Penn Hospital, who reached out to him, since he has been a patient. He’s due to get his second March 11. Despite our signing me up at half a dozen sites, however, I hadn’t gotten mine yet. Philadelphia is...As the Blog Turns
Sheltering in place brings up a lot of the same stuff as living in retirement, which, after all, is sheltering mostly in place, mainly because you have nowhere scheduled to go. And going back to basics as we old geezers know from experience – and a lot of...Featured Books
Damaged People
Like The Corrections, it is literary, edgy and character-based. Like We Are Not Ourselves, it is a moving multi-generational novel. Unlike them, however, Damaged People has a premise founded in cutting-edge science: that powerful environmental conditions routinely leave imprints in our genetic material, short-circuiting evolution and passing along new traits in a single generation.
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