Being 71, and getting closer and closer to our ultimate human destination - death - I have thought quite a bit about the issue of how I will feel when that time arrives. Actually, I will feel pretty damn good, thanks to the difficult (hellish) period of my life that
A lovely post about life and the poet Jane Kenyon arrived in my inbox today from the brilliant Maria Popova and her newsletter The Marginalian, and I had to share it with you. Maria writes: "The vital force of life is charged by the poles of holding on and
I came across this post from Sahil Bloom (fully reproduced below) in my inbox today and the story is so touching that I had to share it. Have a great day! The Ancient Greeks had two different words for time: Chronos was the idea of chronological, linear, quantitative time. That
A few weeks back, I had a routine blood test for my PSA (prostate-specific antigen) level, and the value doubled into the abnormal range compared to one year ago. Alarming to say the least, since it can be a marker of the presence of prostate cancer. An MRI of my