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The game plan is discharge either tomorrow (Saturday) or for sure on Sunday. The decision will be made tomorrow and I think it will probably depend on my platelet and red blood cell count. They may decide to keep me until Sunday, give me a platelet transfusion and then release me. One of the nurses…

This book was given to me by my friend Theresa Bonopartis. The actual title in the United States edition (the one I have) is In the Arms of Mary, but the title in all the other countries (45) where it’s been published is Praying Self-Abandonment to Divine Love. That’s an awkward but much more accurate…

I finished 1776 today, and what a really fine, fine book. I couldn’t recommend it more. Gary McCullough’s narrative history of the year of the Declaration of Independence, from the human perspective of George Washington, his army and his opponents. There is some special interest for those of us who live in the New York…

Why, the USS Winston S. Churchill, of course! Hit the link for it’s action today. AOL News – U.S. Navy Seizes Pirate Ship Off Somalia The reason I know this interesting but useless bit of trivia, is because I got Brigid a "USS Winston S. Churchill" baseball cap a few years ago. When she wears…

Despite lying around in the hospital with lots of free time, I had no stomach to watch the senate judiciary hearings on Alito. Chemotherapy hasn’t given me nausea, but the senatorial windbags speechifying and playing to the cameras – that brought it on if I watched for more then two minutes at a time. Here…

My good friend John Brown is a teacher and the head of the science department at his school in England. Evidently not that impressed with my reading list. Here’s his email to me: Dear Tom, Just been on your website and great to hear things are going well apart from the insomnia. Mind you having…

My friend Ellen Mullin gave me a book by Wayne Dyer entitled The Power of Intention. I had vaguely heard of Dyer – he is a “self-development” or human development guru. He has a psychology doctorate and has written a bundle of books, the best-known early one being Your Erroneous Zones. I like to read…

On January 2nd we had a very pleasant afternoon dinner with our friends Damian and Jeanne Marie Gagnon, and three of their four children (Nate, Philip and Kathleen; Monica had gone back to college). Here’s a picture of Joe and Brigid (note social lubricant in front of Brigid.) And Jeanne Marie. Perhaps listening to Brigid?

This takes the cake. I took it off the Donald Luskin website, which you can visit yourself by hitting the link on the left, "The conspiracy to keep you poor and stupid." The Hypocrisy of astonishing. THIS IS RICH…   From TimesWatch: Business reporter/columnist Gretchen Morgenson loves corporate scandals, and she rounds up the year’s greatest…

I spent more than a few days working through my resolutions and besides the obvious ones (be nicer to the wife, etc), one kept coming back to the front of my thoughts. I need to work with Tim to get him to really enjoy reading. He’s a good reader, but he doesn’t enjoy it. Joe…