For a long time before and after President Obama was elected Americans debated whether he was truly one of us.The opposition harangued about his incompetence as a community organizer turned senator. They maintained that he was not American, impugning his birth certificate from the State of Hawaii. Donald Trump had a trial run for president on…
When it comes to learning new things, we adults are our own worst enemies. Watch a child learn. Little children have a sense of over excited anticipation. Kids are empirical learners. They tend to try things out without any encumbering anxiety of making mistakes. Adults, on the other hand, conceive of ways to make their…
In the 1960s my dad had ulcers causing painless profuse rectal bleeding and prostration. He hemorrhaged a number of times. Doctors admitted him to the hospital where he got 6 or 8 units of blood. His doctors thought bleeding ulcers were caused by aspirins which he used hardly at all. NSAIDs like ibuprofen, the first…
I have a favorite soft cushioned couch for an afternoon nap. I am on my back, neck tilted forward and open my eyes. I look through windows at the sky. I love to watch the clouds brushing against skyward straining branchlets of a red maple, denuded of its leaves. Branches are as tiny twigs stretching…