How does one choose what to read after War and Peace? During those priceless months of immersion in Moscow, Borodino and places between, I was compiling book recommendations from friends and reading intriguing book reviews, pondering my eventual reentry into the world of good, but not great. As you might guess, I knew it would have to be something short, and probably not a novel, to reduce the...
The garage at the University of Chicago Hospital sells discount booklets for parking in their facility. I should have bought one for this month. This is what’s on my May calendar: 5/1 Physical Therapy 5/9 Gastroenterologist 5/13 Primary Care physician 5/19 Physical Therapist 5/23 Orthopedics 5/27 Endocrinologist Appointment not yet made – Dermatologist Rosellen could expand the list even...
Just as I was about to sit down at my computer to begin this week’s posting, my phone lit up with the announcement that “We have a Pope.” I’m not really part of that We, but it was a historic moment, worth a detour to CNN, where I learned that the new Pope was an American, an outcome that few had predicted. To add a personal note, it turns out that he studied at The Catholic Theological Union...
In one of our friend Howard Mansfield’s many wonderful books, there’s a piece that’s on my mind for reasons that will become apparent if you read on. It’s the funny/not funny accounting of some of the crazy things that drivers of a certain age in his tranquil town of Hancock, New Hampshire do to/with their cars which, by any objective standards, they should no longer be driving. Driving into a...