“Let’s go,” said Lona’s brother Larry many years ago. “I invite you all to Turkey to see the total solar eclipse for my 60th birthday.” The eclipse was going to be on August 11, 1999, literally the precise date of his birthday. I thought the birthday boy got the...
We’ve sunk to new depths. Disguised as saviors for elephants, we’ve again vented our killer instincts. This time in Central Park. “Ivory is Destroyed to Save Elephants,” read The New York Times headline on Aug. 3rd. This wasn’t the first such event. The last was also...
My last blog, “Wrapping Up My Memoir,” announced my memoir in its final stages. Reconciling my science career with the background of my artistic family is an important theme in the memoir. Collecting Inuit art was an activity, apart from the science itself, in which I...
Please forgive me, I’m thinking aloud as I’m whittling my way, tortuously, to some take-home messages to come. Here’s the problem: I finished the sixth version of my memoir a few days ago, and within an hour of putting the last period on the final page I started...
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