- Mar 24
COVID Year Four — Where Am I Now?
Out maskless at granddaughter's performance Reflecting back to March, 2020, we had just returned from our grandkids’ swim meet in Indiana...
- Mar 15
QR Codes and Other Tech Frustrations
Our first TV behind our first baby, who is riding a low-tech wooden giraffe Our first TV was a wedding gift from my grandparents, which...
- Feb 29
What’s Today’s Date?
During a recent hospitalization, someone came into my room and asked me that. Without my iPhone close at hand, I panicked for a second....
- Jan 31
Medical Care in 2024: You Can’t Always Get What You Want (or Even What You Need)
I naively (and arrogantly) thought there were ways to avoid some of the pretty bad encounters my brother and friends have had recently...
- Jan 15
A Hospital Almost Killed My Brother
Let’s get the personal blame game over quickly. My brother has just started peritoneal dialysis for advanced kidney disease. That part...
- Dec 19, 2023
Pain
Despite efforts to make people’s perception of pain quantifiable or more objective (think all of those pain scale ratings, zero being no...
- Dec 19, 2023
Seated Around the Table Part Three — My Kids and Grandkids
We opened the wall In 1624, John Donne wrote, “No man is an island, entire of itself.” Of course, he was writing about the...
- Dec 14, 2023
A City Divided and United
On November 30, 2023, the City of Evanston Equity and Empowerment Commission held a special meeting with one agenda item. It was to vote...
- Nov 22, 2023
60 Years Ago — November 22, 1963
It is my first “where were you when this happened” memory. On November 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, I was...
- Nov 13, 2023
None of the Above
I always hated this option on multiple choice exams. There was often a reason to suspect that one of the suggested answers could be...