Our kitchen floor at the 2-story house on Wayne Avenue was a shining reflection of cleanliness. My mother held cleanliness next to godliness in her list of values. When she visited us in later years she would voluntarily started cleaning out the refrigerator. She would bring a green specimen of something growing on the back
Another day, another year and what to make of that? I make S. crazy with my take on birthdays, and many things. I see things differently. I try to explain my rationale and she isn’t persuaded. It makes sense to me. That’s good enough. Here it is for your consideration. You will understand and
A 3-year-old, Max, asks his grandfather, “Why are you an old man?” Countless children offer keen observations, ask surprising, thoughtful, penetrating questions, filled with curiosity and wonder. As parents, grandparents, teachers and friends, we would do well to seize that opportunity to have a conversation and explore some of the big why’s of life, as
I heard a friend use the phrase “internal relevance” and I realized it as something I had not thought much about, at least not consciously. The person using the phrase was in search of “internal relevance” as a way of being in the world that was authentic. He was tired of trying to be someone
On August 24, 2019, I published a blog entitled “Stepping Into the Unknown.” Of some 600+ blog posts, that one garnered more attention, both domestic and foreign, than almost any other post. I wondered what made it so popular and why, some 4 years later, it continues to resonate with so many people? Is it
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 doctor is to support quality of
