New polio in the US–and vaccinations
A few months out of the hospital, 1951 As a polio survivor who has done significant research on polio and written a memoir about my own experience, which included some of that scientific research, and one who has also written a book about dealing with disability and aging and ways of making life easier, I’m about to give [...]
Checking in
I've not written a blog post for nearly five months. It's not that I haven't had any thoughts, as I'm sure you'd imagine. I just have been caught up with other life stuff that has diverted me. I'm going to post a blog about polio and vaccinations but at the moment, I'll just say this: I hired two new gardening [...]
Give my regards to… New York City–Traveling again part VI, final installment
Sunday morning in New York came with a bit of a challenge. It had turned out that the convenient garage across the street didn’t open until 10:00am, which they had not told us until we deposited our car there Saturday evening, and we were supposed to have the rental car back to Avis by 10:05 Sunday morning, with a scant [...]
Venturing outside New York City — Traveling again, Part V
On our fourth morning in New York City, we rose early (for us) and took a Lyft to the closest car rental that had any kind of car at all within the city, which Richard had reserved days before with Avis. The office was about a mile from our hotel near Times Square, and across the street from Madison Square [...]
Broadway, Baby! Traveling again, part IV
I had procured two tickets for “Wicked,” the NY Broadway show which elaborated the story of the two witches from The Wizard of Oz, several weeks before we left on our trip to the East. It was easy enough to get them online, but since we were somewhat close to departure, there was a kerfuffle about how we were going [...]
Being on TV in NYC! (Well, at a distance, anyway…) Traveling again, Part III
We slept in on our first morning in New York City, only getting up in time to order the Hyatt’s bare bones bag breakfast. This is part of what I love about vacations; I still get up and do my yoga each day, and may keep up my daily meditation (or not). But I don’t have the responsibilities of doing [...]
New York, New York! Travelling again, Part II
For this second leg of our trip to the east coast, I set about finding a hotel in New York City (NYC). This had never been difficult for me in the past; we had stayed at the Crowne Plaza at Times Square several times previously. It’s conveniently near the theater district, there are lots of restaurants, cab and Lyft drivers [...]
Travelling again, Part I – Toronto
My beloved cousin, John Allen, died too young, not long after his 69th birthday, on April 1, 2020, in Toronto, early in the pandemic. Although he was a distant cousin (our shared ancestor is way back there about five generations), we had felt a strong connection since meeting more than twenty years ago. He reminded me a bit of my [...]