Month: February 2019

Harry & Bess’ Excellent Adventure

Books / Politics / Travel

Matthew Algeo’s entertaining and irresistible account of the Trumans’ 19-day road trip just after leaving the presidency in 1953 triggered a unique combination of reactions as soon as I put it down: tears at the elegiac ending and an almost uncontrollable urge to rent an RV and hit the road, …

HeLa: What’s In A Name

Books / Science

I recently reconnected with a friend after 30+ years of separation. While catching up on the lost decades, he eventually revealed his current situation: homebound and dying of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. His one pleasure left in life, though, is reading: 4-5 books a week, sometimes as many as one a day. …