Dr. William Wrage (1936-2024)

4745 – April 24, 2024 Dr. William (Bill) Wrage I was saddened when I received a message from a friend and educational colleague that Dr. Wrage had recently passed away. He was a wonderful, calm, low key, and yet powerful mentor for me in the 70s. I remember how there were times that I found

Healing

4743 – April 21, 2024 Healing takes longer than I ever would have thought. It is easier said than done. It is hard to diagnose and figure out. It can be caused by so many things. On the road to healing are typical life-type events that sometimes work toward healing more and sometimes the opposite.

Frances Ethel Bori, 1923-2024, RIP

4741 – April 17, 2024 Aunt Fran was everyone’s favorite aunt. Zany, a bit like Carol Burnett in her antics, putting curlers in her hair, making faces, always the center of attention in any room, she was the life of every party. She had no children and from what I always understood, never wanted any.

Sadness comes with leaving Paradise

4725 – March 29, 2024 I am doing my best to keep my myself in a good frame of mind despite what only seems like an attempt by JetBlue to make us miserable. We have to remind ourselves that the vacation was worth it and that any issues we had were minor and the relaxation

Sorry, I was not listening

4723 – March 27, 2024 It occurs to me that so many of the times that we do not get information, especially when we are older, may well not be due to the ability to hear but rather to the ‘tune out effect.’ I have always had the ability to really tune out things when

Day Six of rehab, fifty-nine years old and hopeful

  This picture shows exactly the status of things.  One can see the barbed wire of nature (wild grape vine) that mysteriously appeared on my front lawn just the other day, brought by our canine wonder, Ali.  It is sitting on top of the icy snow.  She had gotten frustrated at the fact that she

Day Four, Detox/Rehab, one day at a time…addendum

As usual, my whirring mind was going non-stop as I baked the final batch of cookies.  Meditation was at work as I rolled the sticky balls of molasses cookies and coated them with red or green sugar before baking. I have said before that things happen for a reason and I firmly believe that.  It

Fluffy, boy wonder!

As a parent there are things one must learn to say to the children regarding issues that appear on a day to day basis.  I was always hell bent on making sure that my boys didn’t suffer the way I had as a kid, I really felt that they should benefit from my own suffering.

Bud and Gladys and Eagle River

  Each year, we send out fewer and fewer Christmas cards.  One we always have sent out with great joy is to our favorite North Woods people:  Bud (who departed this world in 2004) and Gladys.  Just after Thanksgiving, I sent out the cards.  The other day, however, I received a sad Christmas card from

Another kind of Loss and Regrets

  I have been a very blessed human being in so many ways.  I was genetically predisposed to so many little bits of negativity.  I sometimes think that it is in the often sad Hungarian blood that courses through my veins.  It is a sadness borne out in the violin music typical of my heritage.