Lately, I have been thinking about heart rhythm. My beloved daughter encountered a serious arrhythmia in the last trimester of her recent pregnancy. There is a new life but also one in peril. Because the aberrant heart beat has coincided [...]
The Who, in their song "My Generation," stutter, "Why don't you all f-fade away?" Well, we Boomers know the answer. We have never done anything quietly. As Dylan Thomas suggests, we will "Rage, rage against the dying of the light." And it will be [...]
I read Andrew Solomon’s book Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity several years ago as I was struggling with how to be a better parent to a child whose worldview seemed so different from my own. [...]
I come from a line of polluters. If you want to take the long view, it’s an apparent species trait. Sapiens have been overpopulating, pooping on, and plundering the Earth for millennia. In more present times, Grandpa Bellegia worked for [...]