I’ve been home from Sweden for two weeks. Here’s a photo of one of my favorite buildings up in Lulea, a small city 100 miles […]
Books I’m Reading
Over the next month, I will read Allegra Goodman’s Isola, Ben Shattuck’s The History of Sound, and Weina Ramsel’s The Master Jeweler. All three authors […]
Urging Others to Speak Out
On GPS, Fareed Zakaria’s CNN Sunday morning news program, Brown scholar Omer Bartov stated Sunday that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Meanwhile, the IDF […]
Finding Solace in Nature
At a time when our country seems to be heading down the wrong path, I find solace with nature. Out into the garden I go. […]
Some Good News …
I’m excited to announce that I have signed a contract with Koehler Books to publish my memoir, SEEING JOY, A Story of Life, Death, and […]
In Praise of Hospitals
My goodness me. How fortunate we are here in Boston to have excellent hospitals! Today I had an appointment at Massachusetts General Brigham. This appointment […]
Not on Substack …
As you may have already noticed, this blog is not on Substack. My choice. Substack intimidates me. So much going on in the world. So […]
Smorgasbord
Snow and ice. Ice and snow. Upside-down world with Trump cozying up to Putin. People are slowly waking up to the coup. Bernie Sanders is […]
Bottom Line on What’s Going On
It’s hard to write anything constructive while a coup is taking place. Every morning, I call our two senators, Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey, as […]
Thinking about Immigration
Hard not to think of all the people who are being uprooted by Trump’s nefarious policies right now, across the United States. When I lived […]