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• Georgia Tech
  Today I’m getting ready to head down to Atlanta on Monday to begin my year as a Visiting Professor.  Chief among these tasks is packing a nice-sized reference library of books about science, by scientists by Freeman Dyson, E.O. Wilson, Fynman, Oliver Sacks, Greene (THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE), Crick & Watson, etc.   And then there is the [...] […]
• Washington Post Book World
  I began reading Book World when it was brand new and part of my hometown newspaper, The Washington Post.  Of course, we also subscribed to the Evening Star, but it vanished long ago.  And now, Book World is gone, at least as a separate entity, a pull-out like the NY Times Book Review.  But it is [...] […]
• Mt. LeConte Lodge: An Unexpected Jaunt
  Seeing as how I just got my titanium hip in April, I did not plan to hike up to LeConte Lodge withmy husband last Wednesday.  I have a hard time climbing the stairs at home.  I’ve been considering having my other hip replaced asap, since it has little cartilege.  I’ve been going to physical therapy [...] […]
• An Excerpt from THIS SHARED DREAM about education, and a very good link
  Rather long, and full of Opinion.  Dr. Hadntz is a Viennese physicist/physician intent on creating a Device that will change humans from a war-loving to a peace-keeping species.  Bette Elegante (I noticed that in the Spanish edition of IN WAR TIMES, the translater rendered Bette’s last name as ”Smart,” whereas, in my opinion, they ought to have kept Bette’s […]
• ! DEATH 40-FEET TALL ! by Pam Noles
  ! DEATH 40-FEET TALL ! by PAM NOLES As of today, I see no reviews or photos of Pam’s Show, and perhaps its run is not yet concluded.  However.  I Know It Is Great.  I wish I could have been there!  http://andweshallmarch.typepad.com/and_we_shall_march/2010/06/-death-40feet-tall-at-the-hollywood-fringe-festival-the-official-thank-you-list.html And here is ano […]
• Princess Ka’iulani and THE BONES OF TIME
  In 1996, I published my second novel, THE BONES OF TIME, in which Princess Ka’iulani, Hawaii’s last princess, was a character.  Victoria Kaʻiulani Kalaninuiahilapalapa Kawekiu i Lunalilo Cleghorn was her full name.  The daughter of Queen Lili’uokalani’s sister, and Archibald Cleghorn, who was Scottish, she was sent to England to be educated when she was thir […]
• The Ban on Fun
  I just read a great piece at salon.com about how un-fun playgrounds have become.  I know about this firsthand.  When I had my preschool, I bought a house with a great big back yard.  It had three huge apple trees, a horse chestnut tree, and lots of grass.  We had our driveway paver add an asphalt [...] […]
• In Defense of Hoarding
  “Hoarding” is presently a code word for “nutsy cuckoo,” or, “soon to be institutionalized for their own good.”  It’s a mental disorder.  I was in the hospital a few months back with a friend, and I heard her doctor tell her, in a kind but stern sotto-whisper, that she was a hoarder.  She needed help.  I [...] […]
• Titanium
  Twelve days ago, during an hour and a fifteen minutes in surgry, my hip joint and part of my femur were removed and replaced with titanium versions.   I’ve had four rehab sessions, and I’m transitioning from a walker to a cane.  I’m deeply astounded and grateful about all this–astounded that this happened all so quickly, [...] […]
• AVN, or, Who Knew?
  I have a new, somewhat troubling, and indisputably true diagnosis:  avascular necrosis, sometimes called AVN, of my hip joint.  This means that the flow of blood to my hip joint has been cut off, via some presently unknown physical process/cause, and the head of the femor is dead.  The surrounding bones are crumbly.  Total hip replacement within the [...] […]