The winter holiday has come and nearly gone. Kids home for Christmas, gifts coming out of every closet and nook, snow piled deep. Now that we’re all back at work and school, the tree and decorations will slowly be put away. This year I don’t want to let them go too quickly. Those little tree [...]
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winter cheer
Posted in family, memory on January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
changes
Posted in family, nothing in particular on October 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A wedding tomorrow. First snowstorm possible this week. Change happens.
there should be a word for everything
Posted in family on April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
ogliometastases: metastases that are limited in number and location and are amenable to regional treatment. [borrowed from Wellcome Image Awards] I first heard this word yesterday. My oncologist described the results of my CT and bone scans: I essentially have one tumor mass on the sacrum (tailbone), and there appears to be one positive lymph [...]
being with loved ones in hard times
Posted in family, spirituality on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The last month has been really, really hard on many people I am close to. My PSA numbers are rising again, which means my current hormonal therapy is no longer effective. I’m trying to get into a new drug trial but have to travel to Las Vegas for it. For the first time, I’m starting [...]
cherry tomatoes and plastic tiles
Posted in family, memory on October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The other day I was looking for new games to put on my iPod touch, and I ran across a version of the classic sliding tiles puzzle. Long before electronic games, there were toys like this plastic puzzle. After doing a little internet research, I found that this kind of puzzle was introduced in 1880. [...]
childhood as a life sketch
Posted in family, memory on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I wonder if, when I get older or when my mind starts to go, or when I start to feel the imminence of death—or any combination of the above—I’ll start to obsess about my early life. Will my childhood become more immediately important to me than what’s going on around me? My grandmother Virginia was [...]
the joys and consolations of the internet, part 1
Posted in family, memory, music, tagged childhood, internet, music on February 4, 2009 | 16 Comments »
Ain’t the internet great? It’s like this vast collective memory, the large majority of which is completely useless and foolish. Still, it has its charms. I’ve been a bit more reflective than usual in the last couple of years. In between moments of panic about my health and life expectancy, I tend to think back [...]
quiet mornings in winter
Posted in family, images, memory, tagged childhood on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My father took a lot of photos in the late 50s/early 60s, black and white studies of landscapes and our living spaces. He was an artist, and had a Nikon camera that he took everywhere. Somehow he was able to capture moods and light and memories with a deft visual touch. He taught at the [...]
hello world
Posted in family on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a child of the late 50s. A confusing time, a hopeful time, a frightening time. All too often we could just say that we didn’t know any better. My Grampa used to keep an ice cooler and a wooden crate with a few dozen 8 oz. bottles of Coca Cola in the trunk of [...]
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