The author of this article, Dr. Andrew Vickers, is a biostatistician at Sloan Kettering hospital in New York City. A particular focus of his work is the detection and initial treatment of prostate cancer. FYI: Dr. Vickers was a guest speaker at a Malecare (sponsor of this blog) event here in the past year. They do get the best [...]
Dear Friends, I just wanted to ask a favor of you all. Please stop whatever you're doing and take a few minutes to write a letter to the New York Times. Read what I wrote and you'll get the idea. This is a timely matter. There was also a letter to the editor about PC [...]
Saturday night Ted and I went to a concert. The music was good, but my mind kept straying. I was thinking about my father. Feeling depressed, because it dawned on me that, 3 1/2 years after his death, he wasn't coming back. That only happens to deities. My mind flashed back to the scene at his bedside the night he died, [...]
"THE LITTLE OLD LADY IN LAVENDER SILK" By Dorothy Parker I was seventy-seven, come August, I shall shortly be losing my bloom . . . When you come to this time of abatement, To this passing from Summer to Fall, It is manners to issue a statement As to what you got out of it [...]
I recently took a cruise down the Mississippi River on an old-fashioned steamboat, and it made me want to revisit the great African-American poet Langston Hughes' best-known poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (that's what inspired this title.) But my personal favorite Hughes poem is "Mother to Son", which I think of whenever I feel [...]