You said something that has made me wander from what I might normally do, which would be to see what I could spin in fifteen or twenty minutes, or dig my broken heart out the garden, look at it, and…

One Sunday in the fall of 1963, I believe before John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Dick Elwell was driving his Triumph TR 3 down through the Catskills on his way to Lime Rock, Conn. to watch the Gran Prix races.…

Gerald R. Fox was an engineer working for the General Electric Corporation. He was in research and development. At the moment he headed up the Bearings and Lubrication Lab. He was one of the foremost authorities on bearings and lubrication…

Life is nothing if not an incomplete attempt to figure out why we are alive and what we are doing with our time on this earth. I am reading a great deal of science fiction these days, and it all…

Had the very deepest sleep last night...so deep, simmered in dreams that it ached to wake up. Dreams so realistic, that to wake up felt more like the dream than the dream itself. Dreams so deep and detailed, so deeply…

When they (The Army Corps of Engineers) created Sacandaga Reservoir in about 1937, the water covered many small towns in the lower Adirondack area. Some of those towns were the Town of Day, West Day and Rice. I first went…

My mother-in-law, Masako, had a gift for talking to strangers. Even though, as a small Japanese American woman, she often looked like the outsider, she was friendly to everyone. Once we were at the airport in Calgary, Alberta, waiting to…

From the time I was a kid, my family traveled. Not the way people do today when two-year-olds have well-worn passports, but the old-fashioned way. In a car. My father who ended up with a career as a structural engineer…

Total time spent in patient care management time including floor/unit time: 126 minutes. Face-to-face time and non-face-to-face time was spent on: discussing goals of care and treatment plan with patient/family along with providers as noted in communication discussion and assessment…

[more drafting, rough rough intro to a travel blog] Marseille, France, the country's second most populated city. Surprised? Actually it's a surprise that we haven't visited here sooner. It's been on our list for years. When a busy port, an…

Often, an hour out from showtime, before going to my dressing room flights of stairs above, I’d give myself the solitary luxury of walking out onto the empty stage, then sitting in the center of it, letting the dense quiet…

[partner, I'm using today to work on rough draft of an essay...] If learning a new language as an adult will save me from dementia, I'm good. Nearly twenty years ago when a friend moved to Umbria, I took an…