Last week those of us with our nose in screens witnessed a spectacle no news feeder could resist: an old woman butchering the National Anthem before a baseball game. But it wasn’t just any baseball game, and the girl singer had won the hearts of boomers over 60 years ago. The game was the inaugural contest ofContinue reading “Martha!”
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web site!
Kathy started Docere, L.L.C, around the turn of the century, initially to collect speaking fees she might be earning after her NASA years. The name is from the Latin “to teach”. She took me on after I retired as was looking for an institution to which I could tie my new business cards, which IContinue reading “web site!”
Barb’s gone
Barb had been gone over a week before we learned of her passing. It wasn’t a surprise, as we’d watched her bravely deal with ovarian cancer for several years. Kathy and I were on the South Shore from Chicago to Michigan City when she got a text announcing Barbie is gone, coming from Linda, one of myContinue reading “Barb’s gone”
(this is a draft of our new web site)
Meet the team Kathryn Irene Clark, M.S., Ph.D. Robert William Ike, M.S., M.D. co-CEO (since 2004) co-CEO (since 2020) Auntie KC’s page: www.auntiekc.com Amazon Author Page: https://tinyurl.com/AuntieKC Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=new_articles&hl=en&imq=Kathryn+Clark# Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/kathryn.clark.988 Blog: www.theviewfromharbal.com Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/robert.ike.9 Amazon author profile: https://tinyurl.com/IkeAuthor X handle: @BobIke627778 Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?authuser=1&user=SdyZlNoAAAAJ ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert-Ike-2?ev=hdr_xprf C.V. https://theviewfromharbal.com/2024/09/19/see-vee/ Classmates.com photos: https://www.classmates.com/siteui/people/robert-ike/5513161/gallery MD unique identifier: NPI 1326123936 More about us WhileContinue reading “(this is a draft of our new web site)”
no sweat!
Is it still too soon for COVID nostalgia? After all, it’s over 6 years since Gretch shut all us Michiganders out of rakes, gardening supplies, and American flags. I burned my last mask two years after that (1). The changes to our lives have been legion, and so much seems to have become permanent. Nostalgia for the days beforeContinue reading “no sweat!”
woe, woe, woe…
If George W. Bush were still commenting on social issues, he might say “is our children nuts?” With reports of 15% of children 10-19, globally, experiencing a mental illness, according to the WHO (1), and 12 million American adolescents on psychotropic medications (2), ya gotta wonder. Everything from family breakup, COVID, cell phones, the economy, and globalContinue reading “woe, woe, woe…”
Ovis aries hepar! curried!!
How did I get this chunk of lamb liver and what can I do with it? It all comes from working in a place with many multiply-talented young people. My young colleague Michelle arrived in AA with a PhD on top of her medical degree and early success in the lab, parlaying it all into her positionContinue reading “Ovis aries hepar! curried!!”
cowabunga!
I walk with quite a limp these days, and use a cane. My favorite retort to those who notice and ask, is “surfing injury”. Not a consequence of those many miles pounded in as I was pulled into the running craze, although I did curtail that activity because of achy knees. My formerly pit pat retirement left meContinue reading “cowabunga!”
show-off update
3 years and several months ago, I posted a guide to all the seals you might see at the bottom of an e-mail from me, which then looked like as follows (1) I titled it “show-off” as there seemed to be an element of boasting about all the institutions with which I’d been associated. But, ifContinue reading “show-off update”
Mads
When I left behind my hippie-wannabe pseudo-intellectual ways as I left Ann Arbor for the first time, I also left behind my taste for foreign movies (called “international” these days). It was the mid-70s and Hollywood was still in its heyday, with Star Wars, Bonnie and Clyde, Flashdance, Carrie, Alien, Taxi Driver, Chinatown, The Exorcist, FrenchContinue reading “Mads”
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