May 11 , 2023 /

QUALITY OF LIFE

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

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May 4 , 2023 /

EVOLVING

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

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March 25 , 2023 /

CHANGING A NAME

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

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March 20 , 2023 /

STOPPING BY THE WOODS ON A SUNNY AFTERNOON

I am indebted to Tina Welling and “Writing Wild: Forming a Creative Partnership With Nature” for inspiring this piece, celebrating the official arrival of Spring, 2023.   One of my favorite walks is along the Anza Trail, not far from our house in southern Arizona.This historical trail has its origins in Alamos, Mexico on October

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March 18 , 2023 /

A CLUTTERED MIND

Last night was one of those nights.  Many of us have had them for different reasons and I keep trying to understand why and what are some of the similarities and differences.  I wake up either at midnight or 2 AM, having gone to bed around 9 PM, and something occurs to me that engages

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January 6 , 2023 /

CHANGE PLANS

When you see, read or hear these two words, “CHANGE PLANS” how do you regard the word change?  Is it an action verb, an imperative to change your plans?   Or is it a noun, the act or process of change?   Or is it an adjective describing plans as in wedding plans, travel plans or career

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