(Featured photo: Courtesy of Beth Macdonald) For those of us in our later years, we know what Atul Gawande means as he documents the importance of the quality of life in his book, “Mortality: Medicine and What Matters in the End” Atul talked with Juergen Bludau, a geriatrician, who told him the job of any
Naming something or giving it a title is a frustrating exercise for me because I want it to be accurate and descriptive. For 12 years, my blog posts had the name BLOG. I know what that means but it sounds like blob to me and now that I am on Substack and get published in
One day I said to S. “I think we should drive up to Green Valley (AZ) and look at La Posada.” That is a retirement community that offers three levels of living – independent, assisted and final stages including memory care. She said, “You’re not ready for that,” implying the assisted living feature and I
I am not a vegetarian nor a rabid carnivore. I believe in moderation in eating and am fortunate to enjoy an inclusive, diverse diet . Given a choice between meat or fresh fruits and veggies, I will take the latter. Carne (meat, especially beef) plays large in the diets and menus in Argentina and Chile.
In Italian and Venetian, Argentina (masculine argentino) means”(made) of silver, silver colored”, derived from the Latin “argentum” for silver. The earliest description of the region by the word Argentina has been found on a Venetian map in 1536. Silver and leather crafts and products are sold everywhere, even in gift shops at gas stations.
I wondered why Rio de Janeiro? The Portuguese arrived January 1, 1507 at Guanabara Bay and mistakenly thought it was the mouth of a river and named it in honor a saint. St. Sebastian de Rio de Janeiro. The cathedral in Rio is St. Sebastian and 70% of Brazil is Catholic. Rio was the capital
