My “Indian Musical Vacations” explained
Other Musings
Norway has more nude statues that any place I’ve ever visited. This is, in large part, due to the life work of Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland. For the last twenty years of his life (he died in 1943), Vigeland worked in an Oslo park, creating 212 sculptures[…]
I try not to think too much about the fact that I’ve reached that lofty milestone in age of having attended my fifty-year high school reunion. I graduated from Columbus High School in Columbus, Georgia, in 1966. My graduating class had around four hundred seventy[…]
View a short humorous video of Dotty Mazer on her ninetieth birthday here: How does one sum up the life of a ninety-four year old woman, an artist, humanitarian, mother of three, and the recently deceased stepmother of my wife, Susan? I knew Dorothy “Dotty”[…]
Why have a German reunion in Salt Lake City? In 1969, I traveled to Kiel, Germany, for a “junior year abroad” at the Christian-Albrechts University. I ended up staying out of the US for three and a half years, during which time, besides living in[…]
Nobody plans to get cancer. Nobody intends to interrupt their lives in such a drastic fashion, to undergo painful traumatic treatment regimens, to live for (hopefully) years with nagging uncertainty about a possible cancer recurrence. Yet, this is exactly what happens to thousands of people every year in every walk of life.
This is a blog for those readers with an interest in technology, specifically, the cutting edge of new technology in the development of alternative energy. Let’s outline the context for the need for alternative energy. The original traditional energy sources are: wood, coal, and petroleum[…]
Fall in the Smokies of North Carolina It has been said that the American healthcare system is not about health, nor is it a system. Rather, it has been described as a pyramid scheme run by insurance companies with government collaboration, in which exorbitant premiums[…]