Many years ago, before my parents divorced, we used to make frequent car trips to Detroit from our home in Connecticut. The nature of these trips was to take my brother Joey, who had Down’s Syndrome (Trisomy 21), to see one Henry Turkel, M.D. who was treating Down’s children with a regimen of massive nutritional [...]
When i sleep i’m free
Days gone—and to come—retreat
Free of distraction
Every morning I ride the subway to work.
It is about a forty-five minute trip more or less—mostly a monotonous, and monochromatic blur as I endure the smells, the screeches and the gross violations of personal space we New Yorkers come to slough off as part of the cost of living in the Great City.
At about [...]
Stream of consciousness. Writing. Listening to Keith Jarett. Driving down I-95 from my Mother’s house. We were up for the day. She told my wife I’m like a ghost. Like a ghost since those things I had to go through long ago. I don’t feel like a ghost. I feel like a dead plant come [...]
I’m not sure exactly where my passion for stride piano started. I started my musical career with piano lessons when I was very young - but it never went anywhere as I just didn’t have that much interest. Dumb kid. When I finally did start paying attention and getting interested in music it was all [...]
I was listening to a friend speak about his angst, unhappiness, depression, and inability to simply feel good. Now I may be contradicting myself here, as so far I’ve really been championing the view of illness, chemistry and medicine vs. mind over matter. But after listening to this friend go on (and [...]
(update April 29, 2007) — The post below is one I’ve kept private for some time now. I decided the time was right to make it public. Part of the reason why is that Jupiter was put down.
The rest of the reason why is that we reconciled with my Mother and things are [...]
Before I go any farther; let me say that I take an antidepressant. I’ve suffered from bouts of severe and crushing depression since I was in my teens.
Mood disorders have come into the spotlight of late; just turn on the TV or open a magazine. Antidepressants are big business.
There are still people who think that [...]
I recently splurged on the purchase of a sleek, black, 80GB Apple iPod Video. I was never an Apple person. It was IBM and Intel for me from the start which meant not so much an allegiance, but an arranged marriage of sorts to Microsoft.
Now Microsoft has been the main key to my livelihood for [...]
