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Tribute to Arrow
In 1999 we adopted a dog with a name tag that read “Arrow.” We liked the name and loved the dog, who’d been rescued from a shelter by a friend on his very last day (an extra one he’d been given past his scheduled “due date”) of life. She couldn’t keep the dog because she […]
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Playing Chess
I learned to play chess when I was eight. My uncle, have just returned from a POW camp in China at the end of The Korean War, taught me. I think he learned to play in the prison camp. He once said someone had carved a complete chess set from scrap wood. He didn’t say […]
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The Learning Never Stops
I’ve always been interested in learning new things, usually by reading books and magazine articles, and sometimes – rare times – by talking to experts. When I wrote a monthly column for a computer newspaper published and distributed in Chicago back in the 1980s, I had the opportunity to interview a woman who worked with […]
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