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My beautiful wife loves Michigan

(I wrote this a couple of weeks ago, entering the football season that had not yet begun with the Minnesota game. I blew right past the Gophers and focused on State. Three games in, it’s not looking so good for our Wolverines. But, my beautiful wife still loves Michigan!) It started pretty early. Kathy’s motherContinue reading “My beautiful wife loves Michigan”

I like being old

“See here how everythingLead up to this dayAnd it’s just like any other dayThat’s ever beenSun going up and thenThe sun going downShine through my windowAnd my friends they come around” – from Black Peter. Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia. First performed by the Dead December 4, 1969 at Fillmore West. Performed 342 times thereafter. Continue reading “I like being old”

on Harbal

My wife and I have lived in this 1958 3500 square foot brick ranch for over 35 years. We’re perched high atop the Defiance moraine on a little cul-de-sac nestled between Broadway and Plymouth overlooking northwest Ann Arbor. We see the sun set from our deck every day it’s not cloudy. We share the streetContinue reading “on Harbal”

TDP

Tommy hasn’t been part of my life for over thirty years, except for the memories. Soon, that’ll be all I have. Tommy is a year and a half older than me, but was always light years ahead intellectually and academically. He was the brightest medical student my later mentor Bill Arnold had seen at UniversityContinue reading “TDP”

masks, droplets, aerosols and all that

You’ve got to pay attention to a professor named Siddhartha. But this is Verma not Gautama and he’s currently studying fluid dynamics at Florida Atlantic University. In this video, he explains and demonstrates clearly what all this COVID particle transmission and control is all about. Notice that masks are all about protecting others from you,Continue reading “masks, droplets, aerosols and all that”

LJ here we come!

I’ve kept a journal devoted to San Diego (La Jolla, mostly) for over 3 ½ years. I started it when my wife and I landed there in January ’17 for my 3 month sabbatical at UCSD. We decided it would be fun to record our impressions of the place, especially the restaurants and bars. WeContinue reading “LJ here we come!”

Clean!

I had a COVID test last week Thursday! The real deal where they stick a test tube brush up your nose halfway to your brain and give it a good scrape. I got hit so hard by some bug in the middle of the night Tuesday, I told enough to the triage nurse the nextContinue reading “Clean!”

lockdowns?

I’m taking the lazy way out today, letting some other writer tell you something I think you’d like to know. I’m still not good for much after some bug hit me so hard Monday night to tally up enough points to earn a COVID test, the up the nose with a test tube brush kind.Continue reading “lockdowns?”

no fat for you, Mr. Corona!

With this pandemic you never know what the next piece of news will be, or what part of the world it will come from. Every once in a while it’s good news, and todays item is very much that. And we shouldn’t be surprised it originates from that little sliver of the Levant on theContinue reading “no fat for you, Mr. Corona!”

Bend me, shape me

Andrew Ripps and his Bendcare company have risen from COVID and will conduct another “Summit” in Colorado Springs, at the luxurious Broadmoor, next week. I was so moved by the summit I attended in January, I set about to compose a response, which I’ve sat on till now. I’m getting it out now, as theContinue reading “Bend me, shape me”