In 2015, I sold my cat hospital, Manhattan Cat Specialists, to a corporation that owns and manages several veterinary clinics. I continued to work at my hospital, however, in June of 2017, I decided to retire from veterinary practice. My hospital continued on, in the very capable hands of Dr. Victoria Sheheri, and my faithful technician Hiromi Karagiannis, who started…
I’ve been slow, and also a little reluctant, to put together a blog post about the events of the last few days. I live in New York City, and the rioting in the streets has, at times, come almost literally to my doorstep. A few days ago, I posted my thoughts on my Facebook page. I had awakened at 3:00…
I was a Mets fan in the ‘80s and ‘90s, and David Cone was always an interesting character. He’s won 20 games a few times, pitched for World Series Champion teams, has won a Cy Young award, and pitched a perfect game. He’s seen a lot in his career, so there’s a lot of source material for a good book. …
When I decided to step up my iPhone photography game by purchasing Moment lenses, I was drawn to a deal that was offered on their website – their two-lens starter kit. I knew I wanted the fisheye lens. I didn’t think I needed the ultra wide lens, since the iPhone 11 Pro already has an ultra wide lens (I’m reconsidering…
I was a big fan of the original Queer Eye for the Straight Guy back when it aired almost 20 years ago. I had no interest in watching the reboot, but I caught an episode one day, and I got sucked in and ended up bingeing them all over the course of a month or two. I do like the…
One of the great joys of retirement is to be able to pursue interests that you’ve always had to put on the back burner. I’ve always liked and have had a great appreciation for photography, but all of the technical details – ISO, shutter speeds, aperture, f-stop, the different lenses, etc. – made my head spin. It felt to me…
The 60s are my favorite decade. I was born in 1960, however, so I was too young to really understand a lot of what the country was experiencing at that time. As I grew older, I came to appreciate the 60’s much more. I’m drawn to books about the 60’s – the music, the politics, the culture – and I…
Mission Rabies Ghana, February 2020; what an adventure!! Let’s wrap this puppy up with a blog post. The tentative schedule this morning was: breakfast at 8:00, departure from Lake Bosomtwe at 9:00. I packed my suitcase last night except for the few things I would need in the morning, so I was pretty ready to go. I set the alarm…
I love videos like these from iPhone Photography School. In less than ten minutes, I just got some really useful tips about taking forest landscape photos. I now understand the importance of using the ultra-wide angle lens, putting something in the foreground to make several layers of depth, tilting the camera back a little so that the trees all converge…
There was a feeling of excitement in the air this morning as we all convened for breakfast. Today is the day we wrap up our project. At breakfast, we were assigned our given areas that we were going to cover, and we were also given an important statistic, namely, how many dogs we needed to vaccinate in our area in…
This novel follows the life of 49-year old Arthur Less, a not-very-famous writer whose much younger boyfriend of the past 9 years is about to marry someone else. Although Arthur is invited to the wedding, he decides instead to accept all of the invitations to second-class literary events across the globe. In each chapter, we join Arthur in Berlin, India,…
Our assignment this morning was a region named Oyoko. It’s a small farming community, about a 40 minute drive from our base. We had five of us, and Adusei said he was feeling a bit under the weather, so the plan was to split up into two groups. Adusei and I would staff the static clinic, while Charlotte, our driver…