Hi, According to the ECG they took a couple of weeks ago, I still have AFib. The amiodorone I have been taking (twice a day) kept my pulse rate within a certain range (which is good), but the AFib is still there. I’m supposed to see a specialist in a couple of weeks to talk …
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 …
Newsletter 032 – February 10, 2023 Hi, Back in December I applied for a writer’s residency at Cove Park, Scotland. Cove Park is an international artists residency center located on a 50-acre rural site about twenty miles northwest of Glasgow. I hope to be granted a four-week residency there to work on my novel, The …
Newsletter 016 – June 10th, 2022 Hi, About the image above: This was taken by the side of the road in the UK’s Lake District, somewhere between Ravenglass and Hawkshead. In newsletters 13, 14, and 15, I mentioned three very different projects that I might take up at some point in the future: one anthology …
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 …