I’ve always loved your writing and your ability to tell a good story! It’s a gift…you should write a book! I’d definitely buy a copy! Thanks for sharing!
Be careful! You could end up in one of my stories. :) Thanks so much, Anna. Glad you’re enjoying these. I’m so glad we’re still in touch after so many decades. :)
Regarding your recollections of you and Alanna dressing as the Smith brothers cough drop brothers,: I remember as a child that we knew them by their first names.
The Stephane Grappelli/Yo Yo Ma recording “Anything Goes” is one of my favorites to play when I’m in the workshop fussing with some piece of machinery. How marvelous that you got to see him in person in such intimate venues!
It was great seeing him. Close enough that you could see that eternal twinkle in his eyes. I had not heard the “Anything Goes” recording, but I’m listening to the whole album as I write this. Yo-Yo Ma has recorded with as many people as Grappelli did—if not more. I love listening to him play with unexpected folks like Alison Krauss, Carlos Santana, or Miley Cyrus (playing Metallica!).
Since I can't respond to your flexnor report article on the Sensible Medicine substack without paying, I wanted to mention here that the rockefeller and carnegie commissioned the flexnor report and rockefeller pretty much owned the medical industrial complex by then and still does to this day. https://archive.org/details/carnegieflexnerreport abraham flexner's brother, simon, worked for rockefeller and commissioned abraham to write this report which ended up wiping out all of the holistic medical schools, as well, in favor of the drug based schools purposely. The rockefellers wanted to find a way to use their petroleum in new ways so they could expand their wealth. You might want to read some of William Engdahl's work and the history of the rockefellers since he's an expert on them and their nefarious history.
Hi. Thanks for writing. I will be re-posting this article on my own Substack, where you will be welcome to post this comment or others. For mystified readers, Debra is discussing my article "The Foibles of Flexner," posted today at the Sensible Medicine substack (https://sensiblemed.substack.com/p/the-foibles-of-flexner). Yes, Simon Flexner was a Rockefeller acolyte, and the interconnections among all those characters can be dizzying. In another recent piece, "The Briar and the Rose: The Common Origins of Eugenics and Mathematical Statistics" (https://graboyes.substack.com/p/the-briar-and-the-rose), I mentioned that, "[In] 1911, a Carnegie Institute-supported study casually raised the possibility of euthanizing those deemed 'unfit.'” (This was a different Carnegie arm.) The report also suggested polygamy and "life segregation (or segregation during the reproductive period)." The craziness was palpable.
New York City has become so unlivable that even the dead are moving out.
Amen!
I’ve always loved your writing and your ability to tell a good story! It’s a gift…you should write a book! I’d definitely buy a copy! Thanks for sharing!
Be careful! You could end up in one of my stories. :) Thanks so much, Anna. Glad you’re enjoying these. I’m so glad we’re still in touch after so many decades. :)
Do you remember when you made me sign a declaration that I wouldn’t pursue a PhD in economics?
I don’t, but there is a whole community of grateful people who ask me that question from time to time. :)
Regarding your recollections of you and Alanna dressing as the Smith brothers cough drop brothers,: I remember as a child that we knew them by their first names.
It was right there on the box: Trade and Mark!
Best wishes, Lola
Another reader mentioned that, too!
Although we've sold
A million others
We still can't sell
Those cough drop brothers.--Burma Shave
Eisenhower’s fault. his interstate speeds destroyed those Burma Shave signs.
The Stephane Grappelli/Yo Yo Ma recording “Anything Goes” is one of my favorites to play when I’m in the workshop fussing with some piece of machinery. How marvelous that you got to see him in person in such intimate venues!
It was great seeing him. Close enough that you could see that eternal twinkle in his eyes. I had not heard the “Anything Goes” recording, but I’m listening to the whole album as I write this. Yo-Yo Ma has recorded with as many people as Grappelli did—if not more. I love listening to him play with unexpected folks like Alison Krauss, Carlos Santana, or Miley Cyrus (playing Metallica!).
One of the greats. I discovered his work watching him play with bluegrass greats on Austin city limits. Thanks for the stories.
He was something else! And thanks to you for reading and commenting.
Like coffee when you unexpectedly have to break out of a drunk: Keep 'em commin', Keep 'em commin.'
Hah!
Since I can't respond to your flexnor report article on the Sensible Medicine substack without paying, I wanted to mention here that the rockefeller and carnegie commissioned the flexnor report and rockefeller pretty much owned the medical industrial complex by then and still does to this day. https://archive.org/details/carnegieflexnerreport abraham flexner's brother, simon, worked for rockefeller and commissioned abraham to write this report which ended up wiping out all of the holistic medical schools, as well, in favor of the drug based schools purposely. The rockefellers wanted to find a way to use their petroleum in new ways so they could expand their wealth. You might want to read some of William Engdahl's work and the history of the rockefellers since he's an expert on them and their nefarious history.
Hi. Thanks for writing. I will be re-posting this article on my own Substack, where you will be welcome to post this comment or others. For mystified readers, Debra is discussing my article "The Foibles of Flexner," posted today at the Sensible Medicine substack (https://sensiblemed.substack.com/p/the-foibles-of-flexner). Yes, Simon Flexner was a Rockefeller acolyte, and the interconnections among all those characters can be dizzying. In another recent piece, "The Briar and the Rose: The Common Origins of Eugenics and Mathematical Statistics" (https://graboyes.substack.com/p/the-briar-and-the-rose), I mentioned that, "[In] 1911, a Carnegie Institute-supported study casually raised the possibility of euthanizing those deemed 'unfit.'” (This was a different Carnegie arm.) The report also suggested polygamy and "life segregation (or segregation during the reproductive period)." The craziness was palpable.