I spoke of many things with my wonderful doctor, sharing my health concerns with a man who not only listens to me but has known me for years and (despite that) respects me.(The “despite that”…
Life is very strange when you leave a place (London) where you were quite happy and cared for people and then you come back (home?) to find that you care for people but not everyone…
I shall try and describe the setting from which I write at this moment. It is the antithesis of London. It is a small funky hotel and restaurant founded just after WWII by a woman…
I opened my iBook notification to learn that Alec Baldwin has written a book about his life. It is called Nevertheless. Alec Baldwin, remember him? He was the subject of my March 31, 2017 post. I…
April 1, 2017 How appropriate to be spending April Fool’s Day in Trump Land. I awoke at 3am in a horrible state, feeling utterly dislocated in the town I worked and lived for…
I am definitely laid low. I awoke after hours of sleep, walked downstairs and was suddenly struck by stabs of pain on the left side. Good news? Not chest pain. Bad news? I could not…
THEN (2012) I hate exercise; it’s boring. But, you gotta! To motivate myself, I plug in my earphones and walk while listening to podcasts streamed from NPR’s “Fresh Air”. It is my pathway to…
I am enjoying having lunch with Colette who has been my friend for 21 years. We’re at Spenger’s Seafood Restaurant in Berkeley, California near the office where she works as a city planner. If I…
So, I guess it was the day before yesterday, but Gail and I were going to the shoe repair shop and the dry cleaners. This is actually what happened at the shoe repair shop: I…
These are some of the men I met while in London, but unfortunately, I cannot recall any of their names…