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Marty
“Marty” - the nickname my mother chose - is now my way of introducing her as a real person. She did not always resemble the ogre who will show up in the Salt Lake City post-accident narrative.
As I grew up in the standard nuclear family, with an absentee commuting father, and a more-or-less housewife mother, […]Interlude (notes)
[flowering trees a substitute for mountains: flowering almond in Jerusalem – in winter, flowering almond along Locust walk in the peculiar winter of 2006. Flowering apricot in Salt Lake City, flowering apricot all up Locust walk in my neighborhood, and around CVS.—at significant times, Pesach getting out of Holy Cross, and return of spring/pesach in […]
Without Mountains
Like Heidi in the city, for the next four months after the accident, I was without mountains. Unlike Heidi, I did not sleepwalk to go looking for them.
Intensive Care
Once I had waked from my comatose state, I started to object to the care I received at LDS Hospital, object angrily, in fact. I did not […]