With the news of Dr. Sacks’ passing earlier this week, I felt compelled to track down my copy of the 1990 movie, Awakenings, and watch it as my own little farewell to Dr. Sacks. Directed by Penny Marshall, the movie brings to life Dr. Sacks’ extraordinary work from the summer of 1969 when he treated a group of catatonic patients with the drug L-Dopa
Read moreI’ve always been fascinated by anyone with an “artistic eye”, mostly because I do not have one. In fact, I’m fairly sure my artistic abilities reached their pinnacle when, in third grade, I figured out that drawing a triangle atop a square was an allowable representation of a house. Sadly, it’s been all down hill from there. Among other incredible skills, artists
Read moreIt was in the fall of 1992 at the beginning of my senior year in high school that I was working at a local private golf course picking up driving range golf balls and servicing the members of a country club. One of my duties at the time was to run errands for the members, which included everything from washing
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