Life at DrTom's

DrTom shares his intellectual inquiries, mental musings, and awkward adventures in upstate New York and around the world. Betcha can’t read just one.

"To hell with facts! We need stories!"
— Ken Kesey

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Is your life's path determined at 17?

(The choices that young people need to make are daunting and possibly made too early.) When we were kids, I distinctly remember asking ...

Monday, January 18, 2010

Senescence sucks: My wife now sleeps with Darth Vader (Part 7)

(This man has just been told that he will have to wear this device for the rest of his life.) As we pick up the exciting action after m...

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Homage to Amelanchier

(A flowering Juneberry in May at DrTom's.) One of the required trees to learn in my field biology course was a relatively insignifi...

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Johnnie Walker, the kisaeng, and me

(A kisaeng party can be fun, but watch out for those raw sea slugs.) When I arrived in Taegu , Korea in 1970, I was assigned liaison du...

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