In the prologue of my novel Jellyfish Have Eyes, Ricardo reflects on his dead wife and tells her, “If you had been there and seen the jellyfish, Lillian. They have eyes and minds. We have so much to learn from them.” Ricardo, a fierce believer in chasing ideas that fascinated him, had gone to La [...]
After having written a few personal essays laying the foundation for a memoir, I was uncertain whether the story of my life – a government scientist who had never suffered adversity or injustice – would have an audience. This question resurfaced in a different format in a discussion with colleagues in creative areas, when I [...]
Near the end of my upcoming memoir on my life in science, I think back on my trip to Lilloet in Canada to visit Van, my high school friend, whom I hadn’t seen in some 60 years. Van lived an independent life, including many years in a commune off the grid in British Columbia. Despite [...]
“Let’s go,” said Lona’s brother Larry many years ago. “I invite you all to Turkey to see the total solar eclipse for my 60th birthday.” The eclipse was going to be on August 11, 1999, literally the precise date of his birthday. I thought the birthday boy got the present! He wasn’t kidding, and Larry, [...]
We’ve sunk to new depths. Disguised as saviors for elephants, we’ve again vented our killer instincts. This time in Central Park. “Ivory is Destroyed to Save Elephants,” read The New York Times headline on Aug. 3rd. This wasn’t the first such event. The last was also in Central Park in December 2015, and in 2013 [...]
My last blog, “Wrapping Up My Memoir,” announced my memoir in its final stages. Reconciling my science career with the background of my artistic family is an important theme in the memoir. Collecting Inuit art was an activity, apart from the science itself, in which I expressed my bent for art, which is represented in [...]
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