Having taught the humanities for years, I am keenly aware of the topic of dancing with death or what the French call La Danse Macabre. Looking back on the mid-14th century, Europe lost 100-200 million people due to the pandemic known as the Black Death. From 1346-53, the Black Death killed half the population of Europe because of the fleas of Oriental rats.
The art world from the 14th century and for many years later reflected upon Europe's dance with death. Artists like Pieter Brueghel, Hans Holbein, Albrecht Dürer, and many others have explored that topic.
Pieter Brueghel, The Triumph of Death.
The Black Death influenced writing also. This is John Donne's reflection upon the dance with death.
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No Man is
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While Europeans realized their finiteness, each of us in our own lives will also face that reality. In 2008, I danced with death twice. Fortunately, I was able to lead death while dancing on both occasions. My dances were due to a traumatic brain injury from a fall and prostate cancer. In retrospect, they were both blessings. My perspective upon life is radically different from what it was prior to those two dances. I am driven to be productive in life. It has motivated me to do more for my family and friends. However, I want to leave a legacy to those beyond them. I have traveled extensively in the States and overseas. Many people need assistance both here and abroad. I realize that I will not always be able to lead death while dancing in the future. Carpe Diem informs my activity in life.
We all need to work at making our world a better place for all to live, because we will all ultimately dance with death. Our time is limited, as Professor Keating said, before we all will "fertilize daffodils."
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To Become… What You Might Have Been | 04/28/17 |
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Getting It Together… An Avenue to Acquiring Dreams | 04/26/17 |
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The Meaning of Life It Is All About Fighting the Good Fight for Others | 04/19/17 |
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Life Is a Bowl of Cherries Or the Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men | 04/14/17 |
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Chick Magnet And the Hauntings | 03/31/17 |
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The Hauntings About Bobby and the Gingers | 03/27/17 |
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On Riding to Samara Then and Now.... | 03/10/17 |
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Invictus Thank You, Mrs. Davis | 03/06/17 |
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A Dog's Purpose The Person's Purpose | 03/03/17 |
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Robert the Bruce I'll Drink to Him! | 02/17/17 |
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Thus Spoke Dr. Marchand... And Ginger | 02/15/17 |
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Ginger, Socks, and Poe Finding Lenore.... | 02/13/17 |
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The Meaning of Ginger The Winter Solstice | 02/01/17 |
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How Will I Live to My 100th Birthday? Answer: Ikigai | 01/20/17 |
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We Don't Have a Democracy... Yet Either | 01/06/17 |
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A Lesson of Life Learned from a Cockroach | 01/04/17 |
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Ginger, the Dances, and the Lady It Is All About Determination | 01/02/17 |
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FLASH!!! We Have More Time This Year. | 12/30/16 |
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I'm Hanging My Lantern For All To See | 12/23/16 |
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Accomplishing Things in Life... Even Long Shots | 12/16/16 |
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Mentor Tell You Something About You The Value of Post-it Notes | 12/09/16 |
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Moh Moh's Email Big Dreams Never Run Smooth | 12/02/16 |
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Live While Dying Rather Than Die While Living | 11/28/16 |
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Deplorable... Defining the Definition | 11/25/16 |
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Roll Me Up I Am Free to be Me at 73 | 11/18/16 |
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Tom Brokaw... Another Dancer | 11/16/16 |
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The Lady, Bobby, and Bagan Triangulation Process | 11/14/16 |
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On the Road Again... Like a Gypsy | 11/07/16 |
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The Lady And the Peacock | 11/04/16 |
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Dostoyevsky Danced with Death As a Result, Became a Great Writer. | 11/02/16 |
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The Value of Grandchildren Links to the Past and Future | 10/31/16 |
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Teach Your Children... To Dream | 10/28/16 |
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Resurrecting Dashed Dreams By Continuing to Dream | 10/17/16 |
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A Bridge Too Far Isn't Always the Case | 10/14/16 |
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Death Teaches While You Dance | 10/12/16 |
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What a Difference a Few Years Makes If You Are Joisting with Windmills | 10/10/16 |
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Himmler and His Quest for the Holy Grail Remember the Past | 10/05/16 |
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Dealing with Impossible Dreams Realistically... Or Getting All My Ducks Lined Up | 09/26/16 |
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GiGi's Psychoanalysis Me and My Hauntings | 09/23/16 |
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The Fighting Téméraire Explained My Nostalgia to Me | 09/21/16 |
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The Donald as the Dark Knight He Ain't Don Quixote | 09/19/16 |
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Why Do I Care? More to the Point, Why Doesn't Everyone Care? | 09/16/16 |
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Confucius Say, "Petty Man Understands Profit" | 09/14/16 |
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Return to Myanmar Dream Big | 09/02/16 |
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Rediscovering the Past... Eleanor Roosevelt | 08/31/16 |
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The Meaning Behind the Man The Man of La Mancha | 08/29/16 |
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Trying and Failing... Is Better than Failing without Trying | 08/26/16 |
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The Strangest Thing Happened to Me at Jimmy John's Warren Buffett's 10 Ways to Get Rich | 08/24/16 |
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Listening to My Mentors And Dreaming Impossible Dreams | 08/19/16 |
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The Terrorism Trifecta Three More Dances with Death | 08/12/16 |
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The Kiss From Life to Death | 08/08/16 |
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We Must Address Conservativism... For Two Essential Reasons | 08/05/16 |
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The Value of Giving Gifts... To Young Children | 08/01/16 |
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Bobby Kennedy Still Reaches Out to Us. | 07/29/16 |
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My Love Letters They Must Be Written | 07/22/16 |
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We Shall Overcome A Belief Amid Darkness | 07/18/16 |
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Last Words Or Don Quixote's Joists with Windmills | 07/04/16 |
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Talking to a Tree Growing in a Silo | 06/24/16 |
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Bloody Hands and No Backbone What a Legacy | 06/20/16 |
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The Angel Spoke... And I Listened. | 06/10/16 |
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The Thinkers Three Jack, Owen, and Me | 06/06/16 |
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The Advice of Master Kong Enjoy Life by Not Working | 05/30/16 |
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Morphing of the Flu with Polio A Strange Juxtaposition | 04/29/16 |
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The Third Dance Apparently Was a Misstep | 04/27/16 |
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The Relationship Between Death and Life Death Can Cause Us to Live Life | 04/25/16 |
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I am Don Quixote But I Am Not from La Mancha | 04/15/16 |
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Maude Adams Found Somewhere in Time | 04/13/16 |
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In My Life I'll Never Lose Affection for People and Things | 04/11/16 |
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Christopher Reeve Another Dancer Who Could Also Fly | 04/08/16 |
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Worthless Windmills Time Will Tell Their Worth | 04/01/16 |
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Learning from My Mentor A Knight-Errant On His Deathbed | 03/28/16 |
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I Want to Have Dinner for Two A Date and Someone Who Has Done the Dance | 03/23/16 |
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Einstein's Other Theory From a Genius | 03/18/16 |
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Could I Have This Dance... For the Rest of My Life? | 03/11/16 |
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What Drives Me? And the Answer Is.... | 03/07/16 |
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On Seeing the Light Chuck, Paul, and Me | 03/04/16 |
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Paying Tribute to Steve, Anne, and Dave For Their Assistance | 03/02/16 |
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My Casablanca Party Morphed Into My La Mancha Party | 02/29/16 |
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Two Roads in the Wood Choose Wisely | 02/26/16 |
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The Art of Beating the Grim Reaper Follow Randy Pausch's Example | 02/24/16 |
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Grave or No Grave That is the Question | 02/22/16 |
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Best of Times, Worst of Times It Is Your Choice; Choose Wisely | 02/19/16 |
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I Am Looking for Another Dancer The Ultimate Partner | 02/17/16 |
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Buddha's Strange Parable... Which We Need to Understand | 02/15/16 |
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The Value of Dreaming About My List of Dulcineas | 02/12/16 |
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The Third Dance... Maybe or Maybe Not | 02/08/16 |
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Somewhere in Time The Importance of Memories | 02/04/16 |
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The Drinkable Book I Wish I Had One While in Indochina | 02/03/16 |
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Another Dancer David Hume | 02/01/16 |
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Revitalizing My Brain After Winding Up in ICU | 01/25/16 |
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Dreams will come to you.... If You Are True to Your Quest | 01/22/16 |
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A Pit Stop Can Be Our Destination Don't Miss Your Destiny | 01/20/16 |
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Miguel Cervantes As Don Quixote | 01/18/16 |
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"I'm Dying, and I'm Having Fun." Randy Pausch is Correct | 01/15/16 |
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The Little Match Girl And The Golden Statue | 01/11/16 |
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The Very Strange Year of 2008 A Year to Remember | 01/08/16 |
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The Gift of an Angel It is More About My Feelings | 01/06/16 |
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New Year New Booty | 01/01/16 |
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Swallow, Swallow, Little Swallow One of the Saints | 12/25/15 |
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Don Quixote and Confucius Told Me To Get Off My Arse | 12/18/15 |
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Going to Hell in a Handbasket And the Tibetan Mask | 12/14/15 |
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Doing the Dance Again How to Address Both New Dances | 12/11/15 |
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I Know Who I Am... And Have Found Two People Who Understand Me | 12/04/15 |
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Take Your Passion and Make It Happen Flashdance Follow-up | 11/27/15 |
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Responses to Paris Both Are Vital | 11/25/15 |
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What a Feeling And It Is a Great Feeling | 11/20/15 |
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Pandora Provides Hope... Don Quixote Provides Determination | 11/09/15 |
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Don Quixote Then and Now | 11/04/15 |
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Dr. Marchand Knows Medicine Well... And He Knows Life Well Also | 11/2/15 |
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Doubling Down... To Make Dreams Come True | 10/19/15 |
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The Old Pine Table An Object of Renewal and Rebirth | 10/14/15 |
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It's Confession Time... And It Isn't Sunday | 10/09/15 |
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The Mahogany Bench A Place for Dreaming.... | 10/07/15 |
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The Right to Live And the Right to Die | 10/05/15 |
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Squirt's Observations of Her Papa A Modern Day Eppie's Reflection | 10/02/15 |
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The Little Wooden Box An Updated Pandora's Box | 09/30/15 |
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Collecting Coins A Tradition Continues | 09/28/15 |
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A Great Dancer with Death A Sobering Experience | 09/21/15 |
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Putting the Pieces Together The Joy of Coming of Age | 09/18/15 |
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The Tulip Pitcher A Picture of Springtime | 09/16/15 |
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The Felt Picture A Picture of Hopefulness | 09/09/15 |
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A Second Look at Life Toward the End of Life | 09/07/15 |
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From Whence Does the Spark Come? The Creative Act of Pondering | 08/24/15 |
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The Value of Pain Or How to Retrieve the Torpedo | 08/21/15 |
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A Man with a Mission... Sinking a German U-boat | 08/12/15 |
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Riders on the Streetcar Named Desire: Elizabeth and Rosa | 08/03/15 |
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin A Strange Tale | 07/31/15 |
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Dinner with GiGi The Socratic Method of an Older Woman | 07/17/15 |
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What Makes Me Tick Finally, an Explanation | 07/12/15 |
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What Matisse Taught Me Years Ago, Which I Finally Fully Understand | 07/10/15 |
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Alan Seeger And His Dance with Death | 07/04/15 |
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What I Learned About Life... From Facing Down the Dragon | 06/29/15 |
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Wading Through the Water of Life Advice by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | 06/24/15 |
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Lincoln Danced with Death ...and Continued on with Life. | 06/10/15 |
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The Benefit of Problems Or the Only Means to Success | 06/08/15 |
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Cancer and Crabs Strange History that They Both Share | 06/05/15 |
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Milky Way and Andromeda's Dance with Death Parallels Our Dances with Death | 06/03/15 |
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Slaughterhouse-Five Vonnegut's Dance with Death | 06/01/15 |
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Dancing with Death Allows You to Live | 05/22/15 |
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It Has Been Seven Years Since I Fell... And Cracked My Head | 05/18/15 |
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It Is About How You Lead Your Life Start With Refining Words | 05/11/15 |
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Steve Jobs and Charles Dickens How to Avoid the Ghosts | 05/08/15 |
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It is a Choice between Excitement and Desperation. Choose Wisely | 05/04/15 |
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Nepal Then And Now | 05/03/15 |
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The Value of Writing It Forces You To Remember | 05/01/15 |
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"We Get Old Too Soon... And Wise Too Late" | 04/27/15 |
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Booth Died 150 Years Ago Today How Has America Changed? | 04/26/15 |
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Fertilizing Daffodils But in the Meantime.... | 04/24/15 |
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How Do We Learn? The Lessons in Learning | 04/13/15 |
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"Live as if You Were to Die Tomorrow." "Learn as if You Were to Live Forever." | 04/06/15 |
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Lead Death as You Dance with Death It Will Change Your Life | 03/24/15 |
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Some People Feel the Rain Others Just Get Wet. | 03/16/15 |
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Experience Redefining the Word | 03/05/15 |
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The Daunting Duality: Long Life vs. Giving It All Up | 02/04/15 |
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My Head Fake During My Last Lecture | 02/03/15 |
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Graham Kerr and Me On Scottish Delicacies | 02/02/15 |
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Looking Back and Remembering Looking Forward and Hoping | 01/20/15 |
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It Was the Best of Times It Was the Worst of Times.... | 01/01/15 |
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Death is the Best Invention of Life Breathing Is Not Living | 11/14/14 |
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Seeing When You Think You See... The Difference is Dazzling. | 10/31/14 |
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A Lesson of Life from Alexander the Great "Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal." | 10/17/14 |
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Pushing Oneself... What I Learned from T. S. Eliot | 09/14/14 |
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Articles as a Living Legacy... Why I Write | 09/12/14 |
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Getting Really Organized... Late in Life | 07/31/14 |
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First, It Was a Car and then Women Jack and the Learning Curve to Adulthood | 07/21/14 |
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On Seeing the Light... More Clearly | 03/28/14 |
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An Interesting Thing Happened to Me ...On the Road to Mandalay. | 01/20/14 |
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What Makes Me Tick? The True Value of Pain | 01/07/14 |
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Leaving a Legacy A Legacy More Valuable Than Money | 01/05/14 |
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Winter Contains Spring... I'm Enjoying the Blessing | 09/27/13 |
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Forrester and I in Our Winters Seasons Change Young Man... | 09/10/13 |
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The Passing of Elmo to a New Generation... Or the Passing of Cookie Monster to a Free Scotland | 07/17/13 |
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Do You Have Any Suggestions... On Planning My New Life? | 05/18/13 |
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Wondrous World of Why? On Staying Engaged in Life | 02/03/13 |
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The Fighting TÉMÉRaire Growing Old and Understanding Art | 12/15/12 |
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The End of Time Won't Come on December 21st... Unless My Prediction is Wrong | 12/12/12 |
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Reflections on Getting Old... One of the Reasons for My Loving Grandchildren | 11/23/12 |
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Acquiring a Heart of Wisdom... Cuddling with Grandchildren | 07/23/12 |
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Advice to Jack Having Lived Much of My Life | 01/15/12 |