Year: 2022
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Recrudescence
It is the recurrence of this undesirable condition; becoming raw again. Two years ago this week we returned from Costa Rica only to enter a two-week lockdown a few days later. It was widely accepted…
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Balance
Balance is a state of equality, a system in balance is an optimization of sometimes just two parts, but often among many, gently positioned such that no one element supersedes any of the others. Ideally…
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Uncertainty
I have come to see uncertainty as a cousin of frailty. As the pandemic emerged the danger it presented was unclear, whether it was simply on the scale of the flu or something more, it…
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Frailty
“Flight 704 from Chicago to Los Angeles will be cancelled unless there is a passenger who can provide the flight crew with a rubber band” — Urban myth announcement at Chicago O’Hare *** I had…
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The Newspaper
My first paying job was with the Montreal Gazette; my brother and I worked together as paper boys. We each took a side of the street and delivered the morning paper, usually throwing them from…
