Lona's wedding ring I’m still trying to figure it out. At about 5:30 in the morning Lona and I were in Suburban Hospital; at 7:30 she was scheduled for hip replacement surgery. She gave me her watch and wedding ring of 48 years to hold until she came home after surgery. I placed [...]
At breakfast last Sunday morning, June 11, my wife Lona wished me, with a touching card, a Happy Father’s Day. That evening we went out for a romantic dinner together to celebrate. I was surprised how easy it was to get a reservation at a restaurant, and then how many empty tables there were on [...]
Creativity is often judged by novel productions of one sort or another, such as science discoveries that lead to new paradigms; art creations, such as paintings, sculptures or prints; literature, including innovative novels, poems or essays; music compositions; even original thoughts, or for that matter, old thoughts considered in new perspectives. My father Gregor [...]
Think about what you like and the choices you’ve made throughout your life – the clothes you buy, the spouse you chose, the books you read or the art that attracts you – and then ask yourself, why those? Why not others? Objective reasons will no doubt play a major role for choices that are [...]
Being a slow reader, I’ve dreamed for years how helpful it would be if I could download the contents of a book into my brain – wirelessly, of course. Imagine the time saved! I could get through War and Peace in less than an hour. “But it would take the enjoyment out of reading,” my [...]
After the Japanese collector and entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa bought Jean-Michel Basquiat’s skull painting for $110.5 million at Sotheby’s auction the other day (the same picture sold for $19,000 in 1984!), he proudly posted on his Instagram account, “I am happy to announce that I just won this masterpiece. When I first encountered this painting, I [...]
