Dancing With Death

Death, grief and the end of life, have been major themes in my life recently. Last week a 23 year-old man collapsed at the Pittsburgh Marathon and became its first casualty. Friends and family were shocked, there had been no personal or family history to indicate his...

A Dance for the Dead

Apparently we weren’t the only people who hadn’t heard of the museum, because although it was the height of tourist season, several dance students and their accompanying family members were the only other people there mid-morning. The woman taking our admission fee...

Life Before Death

On a recent vacation trip to Montreal I encountered an exhibition in a gallery at the Notre Dame Cathedral with the intriguing title “Life Before Death.” It reminded me of a tribute a friend made to his father. “My father was a courageous man. Unlike the cowards who...

Coming Home

I’m just back from 10 days away from home, which is a bit longer than I like to stay away. One of the best parts of going away is to experience the welcome home I get from Clancy, our dog. His ritual begins with energetic barking as his salutation, and then develops...

Antiques

In order to meet my early morning plane in Omaha I drove the night before from Des Moines and settled into a motel just off a ramp from Hwy 80, about an hour from the airport.  This was as close as I could get since Omaha was hosting the College Baseball World Series...

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