Sodium Cyclamate
Causing trouble in the Navy I was given advice about not drawing attention to myself when I joined the Navy. One of the cardinal sins… Read More »Sodium Cyclamate
All the world’s a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;And then the whining school-boy, with his satchelAnd shining morning face, creeping like snailUnwillingly to school. And then the lover,Sighing like furnace, with a woeful balladMade to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,Seeking the bubble reputationEven in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,In fair round belly with good capon lin’d,With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,Full of wise saws and modern instances;And so he plays his part. The sixth age shiftsInto the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wideFor his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,Turning again toward childish treble, pipesAnd whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,That ends this strange eventful history,Is second childishness and mere oblivion;Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Causing trouble in the Navy I was given advice about not drawing attention to myself when I joined the Navy. One of the cardinal sins… Read More »Sodium Cyclamate
Frederic Edward Mohs was an American physician and general surgeon who developed the Mohs micrographic surgery technique in 1938 to remove skin cancer lesions while… Read More »My Third MOHS Surgery
My hometown – an essay by Betty J. Poltrack My sister and I are settling our mother’s estate. I discovered this essay that she wrote… Read More »Bellingham Washington
I spent most of my early days barefooting around. Later when I did have shoes, my parents bronzed them. It was a thing to do in the 1950s.
My Mom wrote her own obituary. She was a practical woman who knew how to plan for things including her own death.