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Wuhan Waltz Addendum
This evening, while flipping through television stations, I watched a segment reporting that Vanity Fair recently published an extensive article on the origin of the Covid-19. I easily located that article online and found it to be filled with many specifics, along with a narrative of how certain events have unfolded. The dateline of the […]
The Wuhan Waltz
I have never understood why certain groups of scientists boisterously denounce the possibility that Covid-19 might have been genetically engineered by the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Are they blind? After all, that laboratory is located in the very city where the virus was first discovered, and that laboratory was known to be investigating dangerous varieties […]
My Precise Internal Clock
I describe my incredible internal clock in my memoir, but the story is of good length for a blog, so I’ll retell it here. First a bit of necessary background. My mother died at age 37. I was 13 at the time, the oldest of four children. Our dad, with his taste for alcohol and […]
Iberian Travels, Part 4
Pedro, Bruce, Ken, and Alvaro – Four lambs about to be clipped As I mentioned at the end of my last post, pleasure was blooming in our cabaret. Pedro, Bruce, Alvaro, and I, with our front row table right on the edge of the dance floor, were beaming. Background music was perking up, thumping with […]
Iberian Travels, Part 3
During one of the amazing lunches at our Madrid boarding house, Pedro and Alvaro struck up a conversation with a pair of Spaniards seated across the table. The friendly pair had been working in Madrid for some months and knew the city well. As I mentioned in my last post, Pedro had the better English, […]
Iberian Travels, Part 2
By the time our train stopped at the border between Portugal and Spain to be checked by customs officers (a hassle no longer required when traveling between countries of the European Union), Bruce and I had learned a bit about Pedro and Alvaro, the two young men we had met at the Lisbon train station. […]
Iberian Travels
The Iberian Peninsula is a vague corner of Europe for me. I’ve traveled there only twice, my trips decades apart. On the last one I jetted to Madrid and caught a high-speed train to Seville where I had been invited to participate in a conference on hypertension. The organizers had booked me in a room […]
Italian Holiday
As I mentioned here earlier, my Air Force assignment in Germany provided plenty of time for me to breeze around Europe. And, like all airmen of any rank, I had a precious perk, a sweet plum that allowed me to fly free on military aircraft throughout Europe. At the time, C-47 cargo planes crisscrossed the […]
Werner Forssmann, a Personal Tribute
When I wrote the story of Werner Forssmann catheterizing of his own heart, I ignored my more personal debt to Forssmann’s striking accomplishment. That personal debt was sparked some years ago, on one sunny morning as I tramped up a long hill. The hill was familiar, but what happened that morning was not. As I […]
Donald Trump’s Final Grade
A number of articles I’ve seen, along with opinions from certain syndicated columnists, make the case that the Covid-19 pandemic defeated Donald Trump. I have trouble swallowing that. The virus clearly shifted some votes, but I would argue that Donald Trump knocked himself right out of the Oval Office. The reason seems obvious. Trump never […]
