One Hundred thirteen years ago last Sunday, America’s Shakespeare—Samuel Langhorne Clemens, writing and lecturing as the more familiar “Mark Twain“–left this mortal coil as Halley’s Comet approached, just as he’d come in 77 years earlier.
Read the Rest!Tessa Hadley’s The London Train–Stiff Upper Life
Tessa Hadley’s fourth novel, 2011’s The London Train, is sneaky, and beyond satisfying. (Congratulations, CapRadio Reads, on a swell second selection.)
Read the Rest!Go POLSTal
Welcome back guest blogger Dr. Barry Pascal, with the second installment in his self-anointed “Death Triology”—his usual funny take on a serious subject: arranging for end of life care, proving yet again that your friendly neighborhood pharmacist–even if retired–is the most overlooked and undervalued resource in our health care system.
Read the Rest!Dr. B.’s Last Words
Well–we’re coasting down toward Hallowe’en. While those still living with small people are pushed toward sweet, empty calories, we empty-nesters locked in a mortal stare-down with diabetes tend toward the maudlin. Here’s my pal and reluctant guest blogger, Dr. Barry Pascal, with his take on the best way to be remembered, in stone.
Read the Rest!Getting Past “Passed”
“I hear no one gets out alive.” Thirty-five years ago, I shared an office in the Cannon House Office Building with another young lawyer, Jay Turnipseed. He had two young daughters; I had a two-year-old boy, with another on the way. Jay had been diagnosed with Stage IV Hodgkin’s Lymphoma which, at that time, was untreatable.
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