Jul 8, 2025 | Life lived stories, Stories
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, experience, and the context in which images appear....
Jun 24, 2025 | Life lived stories, Stories
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 the locker room. We were done...
Jun 15, 2025 | Life lived stories
(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...
May 15, 2025 | Life lived stories
Part 1 Larry Simmons I’ve always thought fiction is just truth wearing a costume. Change a few names, move the setting around, and what you’re left with is still something real — sometimes more real than the facts would suggest. I’m Sam Spiegel, and this is a true...
May 5, 2025 | Life lived stories
may need some additional editing Who knows why couples like Sheila and Jim Hastings stay together. Then the question is, why do they stay together? I don’t get it, and the answer is so what. Is that question at about the same level of complexity as why do you like...
Apr 29, 2025 | Life lived stories
I was shocked, didn’t know what to expect but how could I know what I would see, remember, walking back, not sneaking back in time, lost, but here I am. Just stood there, paralyzed? Yes, but I continue to stand in front of what I think was my childhood home. No. I...
