Kathy and I just returned from a most enjoyable trudge up and down the hills through the Bluffs Nature Area, off Sunset on the Northwest side or Ann Arbor right by St. Thomas Catholic cemetery not far from the sewage treatment plant, highest place in town at 1,015 feet above sea level. Only 1.8 milesContinue reading “walkies”
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sunshine on my shoulders kills my COVID
I got around to reading the summer issue of my University of Chicago magazine the other day. In it was a COVID article, of course. This one, entitled “Trials by fire”, describes how U of C docs have dealt with the pandemic, not just dealing with the special needs of all the patients, and figuringContinue reading “sunshine on my shoulders kills my COVID”
simplify, simplify, simplify
That’s what my friend and high school classmate wrote back when I asked her why she’d given up her laptop for a tablet. This is what I wrote back: I think Thoreau only wrote it twice, but there is something to that. If there have been any positives from COVID, it’s that it’s forced usContinue reading “simplify, simplify, simplify”
concerts
Two Wednesdays before last, my daily treat from Bandsintown (https://www.bandsintown.com/) included a collection of video clips of several rock icons from my day performing on the Ed Sullivan show https://bestclassicbands.com/ed-sullivan-rock-classics-2-11-18/. I got around to watching them the Friday following – wow – and it got me to thinking of another great thing we’ve lost toContinue reading “concerts”
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!”
