THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. COUNEY, How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies by Dawn Raffel
Dawn Raffel gave a spellbinding talk and slideshow at Quest, an adult learning center today. Reading about how this bogus doctor from Croatia saved 7000 premature babies a hundred years ago by putting them in incubators when there were none or only a few in hospitals. And he had to fund his mission by putting […]
9/11 remembrance
On 9/11, I called my husband who had a business in Brooklyn and could barely hear him for all the sirens blocking out his voice. My son, Charles, witnessed it all from his nearby office window. When he finally left the building, he saw a part of a plane lying on the sidewalk. I went […]
Poem for My Husband on our 52nd Wedding Anniversary.
Yankee Game in 100 degrees Sweat scalds eyeballs. There are rows empty of seats, fans sensibly dissuaded by the severe heat warning. Aaron Judge is back from his back injury. Damp palms clap for him. Pigeons flap across the field. Clouds canoodle in their bed of blue. Fans chant Day-O. Aaron Hicks makes a […]