Jul 8, 2025 | Stories
A walk in the woods near Vlaminck’s house Part 1 Colors, shapes, patterns, movement, is what we see. We have to put all that visual experience together to make what we see meaningful. A retinal image is meaningless without our input from our knowledge, past...
Jul 5, 2025 | Stories
Mr. Rosenthal: A Werner story These last months Werner and I are spending much of our time reminiscing. Yesterday I asked, “Werner, do you remember Mr. Rosenthal? I can see him clearly just as he appeared when he rang our doorbell. We must have been about 10.” We...
Jun 24, 2025 | Stories
A bench in the gym locker room It was then and not now that I was the ‘youngest’ of 6 sitting on the wooden bench in the gym locker room. Time flies or is it that it stumbles along. After working out, the six of us would often gather on the bench in the last row of...
Jun 22, 2025 | Stories
Bobby and other minds I don’t understand How do we go from looking and acting normal to losing one’s mind to the point where we can’t get back to that place, that other place, that most of us live in? Why, how, did what happen to our brain, that, rob us of our...
Jun 15, 2025 | Stories
Roz: What matters (for Roz who as a small child lived hidden in an attic in Nazi occupied Prague) Everything matters ……The sound of a siren….Getting louder …. Moving away.. Shouting from the street Far away…..Getting...
Jun 13, 2025 | Stories
The adventures of Alma Adults and children can be curious observers and investigators. We can all be investigators, engaged observers. We can nurture our curiosity, ask questions, try to answer them. We live in an amazing, exciting, stimulating world. The neurologist,...
