I walked from my hotel in Prague to the “Memorial to the Victims of Communism.” The haunting monument was created in 2002 by sculptor Olbram Zoubek and architects Jan Kerel and Zdeněk Hölzel to commemorate the victims of the communist era between 1948 and 1989. …
“Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.” — Hippocrates For me, reading obituaries and death notices is a habit I’ve had my whole adult life. It helps me keep track of history – mine and others. It’s also a source of interesting stories about people, information of celebrities …
Some days I sit down with my eyes closed and dream of times long ago. I think of Charles and what we were doing on a particular day or time. . . August 1997. I had never heard the term “bucket list” in 1997. Maybe it didn’t exist then. But the concept did. It must …
Every day something jogs my memory of Charles and I’ll wonder what he’d think of this or that. Yesterday it was libraries (books) and ice cream. We shared the love of those two important staples of life and couldn’t get enough of them! We first met face to face in a library and of course, …
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook …
I never forget a good love story. So when I read that on today’s date in 1631 Mumtaz Mahal (Arjumand Banu Begum) died in Agra, India, I recalled the story of Františka Hablavcová’s death in Slovakia in 1902 and here is why. Mumtaz Mahal (1593–1631) died on June 17, 1631 shortly after giving birth to her fourteenth …
