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BITS & PIECES: GROWING OLDER IS OFTEN NOT MUCH FUN
A couple of weeks ago, my car was heading westward on a cold, bleak December afternoon when the sun was low in the sky. There was almost no way to block out the sun and still see to drive. The thought occurred to me that driving like this is no fun. And growing older is…
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Attachments
Quick meta post — Judy dug up plenty of essay attachments relating to recent essays(thanks!). I just added images, some music, and some text to the following essays: MISTAKEN IDENTITIES THE RIGHT WAY; THE WRONG WAY; THE ARMY WAY FOUR GOOD GUYS AND A VERY BAD GUY NEW YORK, NEW YORK PART 6 – L’AIGLON…
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INTRODUCTION
On November 1997 I wound up being speechless and without the ability to write. My total speech consisted of the words “thank you” and in writing I could only write a few spelled out numbers like “six” or “seven”. After release from the hospital, I entered the speech therapy program at Kessler Institute headed by…
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CARR PORTFOLIO
Among the news items that were offered today on July 13, 2006, was the auction of the plays of William Shakespeare. Apparently Mr. Shakespeare had thirty five plays that were included in a volume called “The Folio.” It was auctioned today and the winning bidder was a gentleman who offered five million dollars for the…
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HAS ANYONE ASKED THE PATIENT?
The title of this piece is not intended to annoy or provoke a negative response from the American medical profession. Quite to the contrary. These pieces, having to do with medical conditions, are offered in the hope that they may add to the knowledge of what is known about the body. In effect, these essays…
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FINAL THOUGHTS
My essays, of which there are more than 750, were confined almost unanimously to the light-hearted variety. Once in a while a more serious subject would creep in among the light hearted subjects. But now we arrive at one that is a bit more serious in nature. It has to do with those of us…
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DODGING BULLETS
The surgeon who intended to repair my aortic valve late in 1997 advised me to stop my Coumadin intake five days before the procedure. On the fourth day, a stroke occurred. The stroke spared my limbs but left me with an active case of aphasia. The surgeon, who is a decent fellow, said that “We…
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THE SACKING OF TONY HAYWARD
On Monday, July 26, the board of directors of the British Petroleum Company, known now as BP, met to consider the fate of Tony Hayward, its Chief Executive Officer. I think that it was a foregone conclusion that BP had to separate itself from the honorable Dr. Tony Hayward. In the British way of doing…
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“AIN’T NOTHIN’ YOU CAN DO” — GUY CLARK, SONGWRITER
For the past three weeks, a drought has descended upon my being which renders me largely incompetent to write essays. I trust that the drought is not a permanent condition but is a transient affair. In the long time that I have been writing essays, droughts have appeared from time to time. The title of…
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MIND AND BODY
In writing this essay, I am speaking for a person born in 1918, one born in 1920, and myself, born in 1922. So you see, there are no spring chickens among the three of us. Not long ago, a question arose from the one born in 1920 of whether he would prefer to keep his…