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Balance
Almost too faint, too evanescent, to write about – You know how it is, when you go through a day, or more, on what seems a different pattern: today was busy, one thing after another. Up early for the delivery man to pick up my passport renewal, rapidly reworking lists of compositions for an article…
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Issuing a retraction
I find myself uneasy with one of my previous blog posts. A few weeks ago, I was in New York. Frank Oteri wrote a blog entry on our conversation; he was upset that I had given up on composing. I defended myself… but the truth is, although I thought I was clear on my stance and…
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Biochem IIa
[PREREQUISITE: BIOCHEM I; or permission of instructor] I am noticing some other aspects of changing body chemistry, after the new HIV medications…. For several years, I have tended to get frequent bleeding, and clotting, in my sinuses. This has been worse since my 2009 stroke, and a subsequent three months of the dreadful medication Warfarin…
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The Manticore
So… during a time of relative quiet – home a lot, mulling around various work, making lists, and doing bits of it – last night a novel caught me: Agota Kristof's trilogy The Notebook / The Proof / The Third Lie; and caught me so definitely that I read it from about midnight to ten…
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Biochem
I have been negotiating a large turn of the great wheel of my HIV care… after twelve years on the same regime (Kaletra – which includes a daily dose of that hideous, damned, nasty Ritonavir, that everyone hated so much in the late 1990s; Efavirenz/Sustiva, and Abacavir/Ziagen) – a regime that has become archaically dusty:…
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Not so wrong after all…
Trudy, my student and friend from ten years ago, has grown from a Hong Kong pianist into a New York publisher/performer/gourmet chef, and friend to many people across several artistic communities. Her husband Frank, whom I met for the first time a few weeks ago, is a composer/journalist/intellectual – one who can connect to a…
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