Jun 24, 2025 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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...
Jun 7, 2025 | Stories
Noah wanted to make sure that Medina’s knowledge was in good hands, that is, minds. He asked himself, ‘Could he count on math knowledge being stored properly in the noggins of the Ark’s animals?’ Noah didn’t quite trust them when they said things like “Sure, I...
