Jul 5, 2025 | Children's stories, Stories
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 both knew why he appeared every...
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 22, 2025 | Children's stories
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 freedom? Albert Einstein happened to be at the...
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...
Jun 13, 2025 | Children's stories
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, Oliver Sacks, is a...
Jun 13, 2025 | Noah Saga Stories
The dining room of the Ark was strangely quiet. Usually, there is bedlam. For once, no food fights. Tonight, there was little laughter. A few of the animals did get up and danced to recorded music from Medina’s song cycle. Like every Wednesday night, it was …yes, you...