This is the season of giving–and of anxiety about giving. Every night on the TV news, there are cameras trained on the malls and at least one shot of a cash register opening and change being made. In addition to the darkness of December in the Northeast (I wrapped the deck railings with Christmas lights [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Tis The Season
Posted in Uncategorized on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Man With No Story
Posted in Tracy Cochran on December 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
On December 2, 2008, Henry Gustav Molaison, who was 82, died in a nursing home in Connecticut. He was known to most of the world (or the part of world that cares about brain research) only as H.M. But his passage made the front page of The New York Times this past Friday, because H.M. [...]
Doing Justice To Our Lives
Posted in Uncategorized on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I drive more than I like. I find I can make crawling along in heavy traffic much less stressful by listening to college lectures on CD. As somebody once said, “You can always find a way to learn something.” Thanks to “The Great Courses” series or the “Portable Professor,” I can use a handy mechanical [...]
