Blog2017-12-15T07:44:01-08:00

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 [...]

September 22nd, 2022|

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 [...]

August 26th, 2022|

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 [...]

May 26th, 2022|

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 [...]

May 17th, 2022|

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 [...]

May 5th, 2022|

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 [...]

April 26th, 2022|
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