Splints and AFib and Books, Oh My…

Hi, I have some good news. My hand surgery is healing nicely. I’m in the removable splint now (no more plastic bags over my hand when I shower). Five days after this newsletter is emailed I can remove it all day, but wear it at night for a couple more weeks, at which point I …

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August 30, 2024, A Surgical Update…

Hi, [Update, 8-14-2024: I saw a surgeon yesterday about the problems I’m having with my right hand. Three months ago he gave me a shot of lidocaine and cortisone in the wrist and thumb joints on that hand. That provided some relief for a few days, but the pain and weakness returned fairly quickly, and …

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And That’s No Blarney…

Newsletter 008, February 11, 2022 Hi — About the image above: In Newsletter 001 I mentioned being a member of a narrative portfolio group, and that we attended several conferences to talk about our methodology. One of those conferences was held at University College Cork in Cork, Ireland, in 2001. Blarney Castle is just 10 …

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Brr, Shiver, Brr…

Newsletter 005, December 24, 2021 Hi — (About the image above) I took this picture while Minay and I were walking through my mom’s neighborhood on Martha’s Vineyard in late-December 2000. She and her husband, Bill Sen, had moved there a few years before. We normally visited her there in the summer, so this let …

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