A letter to my daughters
Dear Rachel and Hannah, How proud I am to be your father. While there is often a close relationship between fathers and daughters, I write … Read more
Life
Meditations on how to live
Ideas, insights, and opinions — II
Here are more excerpts from my notebook. As I wrote in the post with the first collection of these sayings, some have appeared elsewhere in … Read more
La cartera
Here is another poem in Spanish, this one about the wallet I found recently that belonged to my father who died nearly thirty years ago. … Read more
Ideas, insights, and opinions
Since long before I started turn-stone, I have kept a notebook of ideas for possible topics to write about, as well as quotes, and books … Read more
Chronic stress syndrome
Post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, is a frequent subject in the news, a disease about which we have become more aware after nearly three decades of … Read more
How to live and how to love
I have quoted the late author Charles Bowden several times in this blog. I admire both his unusual prose style, which often is like an … Read more