In Control

TODAY IS THE FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF MY WIFE’S STROKE. My memory is especially fresh since I’ve been re-writing and re-designing The Lifted Veil – my other blog which is more of a book now, written in narrative form. It’s still difficult to write and even read about those early days without feeling some of the…

Worth the Wait

As some of you may know, the planet earth passes through a meteor belt every August, giving rise to the Perseid meteor shower.  The first time I saw it in 1981, I wasn’t expecting it.  I was walking down 57th Street in Chicago’s Hyde Park on my way to a mid-August dinner party and saw…