All of us meet situations in our lives that are formidable challenges looming large and require us to decide how we are going to move forward. These experiences come in many forms – in a personal relationship at home or at work; a threatening illness or disease; the unexpected loss of a loved one; raising
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
I search around in this muddled mind of mine, looking for some thoughts or an experience that might work for another blog. My goal, more or less, is to post a new blog about once a week. I don’t have the discipline to do it every Friday morning or some other specific time like some
I received a message recently from someone with whom I have connected and communicated infrequently over several decades and I did not remember ever meeting him. He did and he sent me a note which is in the next paragraph. It shows that you never know what impact you might have on someone by what
“Look into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” Albert Einstein For many years as a young child, wading barefoot in a stream on my grandparents’ farm, I spent hours collecting tadpoles and crawdads, watching dragonflies hovering above plants and water striders darting in unpredictable directions. I had no idea what I would
I am not changing my name but I am planning to change the name of my blog. For 12 years it has had the inauspicious and generic title, BLOG. Each Blog has its own title specific to the topic. It went from being hosted on Blogspot to become a page on my web site managed
