Journal, January 15, 2026
My birthday is here, it starts with my daughter being feverish with likely Influenza. So, we do not go to school and after moving her to isolation and tucking her in I go to sleep for a bit only to get into barrage of phone calls from overseas. My watsup. Is pinging and can hardly […]
Journal, December 31, 2025
At some point everything comes to an end. This time is the year 2025. It has been huge. I was sitting in Blue Note Jazz Club in New York last night, listening to the virtuoso trumpet sounds and thinking about the year that is about to end. And what a year it was! It was […]
Journal 07/08/2025
Day #1. Entire night I feel like I am navigating hills. I fall into dreamless sleep for 2 hours and then climb out and then fall again. Interestingly by the morning cotton is mostly out of my head and I no longer look green. I am greatly encouraged by it and feel like I am […]
Journal 07/06/2025
This night has finally come. The night before surgery. I am writing it at midnight and probably should have dated the post 07/07/25 but I am still not finished with the day. I often thought what do people think and do the night before? What had great commanders thought about before going into major battles […]
Journal 06/01/2025
Today started as my worst so far. Walking with my dog in the morning felt like a Herculean task. My legs were heavy and tired and I caught myself more than once wanting to cut my walk short even more. All day I tried to do something and I actually was able to do my […]