TELL ME EVERYTHING a novel by Elizabeth Strout In past years, if I sat down to write novels about people connected to one another in various ways; if Read More
A Doctor Examines Mortality, Asks How He Can Help His Patients BEING MORTAL And that is what Gawande emphasizes in this book: choice. The cases he relates are all about Read More
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When You Don’t Get the Window Seat This post recalls an experience many of us have had. And lately, when I fly, I never get a window Read More
Adjusting to New Developments Dear Readers: some of you have seen this piece, as it was posted last week…but most of you have NOT, Read More
Are We “Trailing Clouds of Glory”? Sometimes I yearn for an answer, and thus would love your thoughts concerning this: why is it that as we Read More
GOOD NIGHT, HAPPY PEOPLE Our home in Chicago has two walls of windows that look out onto our garden(photos above). Those same windows also Read More