Rants of the Newly Old

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Job #9: Three psychoanalysts, winter-spring 1963

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            Drs. Chodoff, Legault, and Kneipp shared an office on the second floor of what might hav...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

SOLTuesday: Rats!

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There were rats, rats, rats as big as cats, In the store, in the store. There were rats, rats, rats as big as cats, In the Quartermaster&...
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Monday, May 30, 2022

Job #8: United World Federalists, fall 1962

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            After being fired by the lawyers, I was nervous about a new job. But United World Federalists seemed perfe...
Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Job #7: Law firm, fall 1962

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            The law firm was called Krieger & Jorgensen, and its office was in a townhouse, up several steps to th...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Job #6: Public Health Service, statistical clerk, summer 1962

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              At the end of June, I moved out of the Clinical Center in Bethesda and into an apartment in Washington, D.C., where I was to r...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022

SOL Tuesday: How Not to Wake Up in the Morning

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            I have a sleep-monitoring app on my phone—because I think a device will tell me what time I’ve gone to sle...
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Sunday, April 10, 2022

Job #5: NIH Normal Control, Spring 1962

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            What, you may ask, is a “normal control”? She (or he) is the person in a scientific study who represents t...
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

SOL Tuesday: My Day

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I may have mentioned that the trade magazine I freelance for is having its 150th anniversary this year, and it is putting together a special...
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Monday, April 4, 2022

Poem-a-Day 3: Haiku Golden Shovels

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A three-line headline calls for a haiku golden shovel. Here are two. What is history But loss and beauty hammered Into a burnt home. H...
Sunday, April 3, 2022

Poem-a-Day 2: War?

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The bombs fall in the predawn for Maximum fear. If they are real. A meta War sends bombs upward toward workers P...
Saturday, April 2, 2022

Poem-a-Day 1: Who Is Free in a Free Market

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For National Poetry Month, I’m trying the golden shovel format with New York Times headlines again. Too busy yesterday t...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

SOLSC 31: Last Slice of the Month

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This month of slices has felt harder than usual. I’ve missed a couple of days without eve realizing it. That’s partly because I’ve been work...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

SOLSC 30: A Plethora of And at Beginnings of Sentences

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Many of you are teaching students to write. You should know that many professional writers are still learning to write, and some of them don...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2022

SOLSC 29: Me and White Supremacy

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I need to apologize.             A year ago, a subgroup of one of my book groups read, a few chapters a month, Layla Saad’s “Me and White S...
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Monday, March 28, 2022

SOLSC 28: Opinions

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             I like to take surveys. It’s probably a weakness, since it can take time that would be better spent reading or writing. Someho...
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