June 28th, 2021 | Education, Europe, Friends, General, Travel
I learned about the English-Speaking Union at Emma Willard School where, freshman year, our ESU was the tall and soignée Julia. Three years later, I applied to the program; our headmaster, William Dietel, at that time chaired the selection committee. I still remember...
August 3rd, 2020 | Family, Friends, General, Health, Politics, Popular Culture
The Baltimore Sun provides a daily update of COVID19 infections and deaths across the state, breaking them out by counties and also by age and race/ethnicity. I look for that long, horizontal gray box and the Harford County numbers in my paper, without fail....
May 10th, 2020 | business and finance, Family, Friends, General, Health, Politics, Popular Culture, Society at Large
We all know the six symptoms of COVID19: Cough Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing Fever Chills Muscle pain Sore throat New loss of taste or smell I know the symptoms, certainly. Yet, even though it is my sixty-eighth pollen season– my car is green with...
March 19th, 2020 | Family, Friends, General, Health
We watched the advance of novel Corona, COVID19, as it engulfed Wuhan, spread into other parts of China, appeared in Italy, made its way to onto cruise lines and breached the borders of the United States. We remember SARS, H1N1, MERS and Ebola. This was obviously...
June 19th, 2019 | Family, Friends, General, Memory, Time Passes, Women
The Saturday of Reunion weekend marked fifty years to that June 14th when Emma Willard’s class of 1969 gathered in the greensward triangulated by the Chapel, the new Library and Weaver Science Building. It was hot and humid—we had worried that early morning...
March 9th, 2019 | Family, Friends, General, Health
The phone rang. Caller ID said it was the Tattooed Boy, perhaps to wish my Dear One “Happy Birthday” because, after all, it was February 8. But a woman whose voice I did not recognize spoke, saying there had been an accident and that Jay wanted to talk. He had been...