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Time for an update on the Cosmic Crapshoot of Life. For those of you who don't know the back-story, the short version goes something l...

Every so often I stumble upon a book that in retrospect could have been damn useful had I read it much earlier.   The Emperor of All Maladi...

Every 6 months I find myself a fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi (between the precipice and the wolf).   Earlier this week I had my che...

It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens. Howard Rheingold When I star...

"To be human here is thus not to be Everyman;  it is to be a particular kind of man, and of course men differ:  "Other fields,...

Sometime last night the hit counter on my blog dashboard reached 250,000 hits. I started the Flophouse back in 2008 for reasons that ...

A topic that I am tenaciously investigating right now is my house.  It is a weird little house. Though there are many detached houses ( ...

All the tests are in and I got the results today at a consulation with my oncologist. The news is rather good. No recurrence of the canc...

Lot of questions vie email and Facebook about Saturday's post about my appointment with the plastic surgeon on Friday.  An 18 month wait...

Yesterday morning early early I set off in a cloud of serenity for my 6 month contrôle at the René Huguenin/Insitut Curie cancer center in...

Last Sunday I had the immense pleasure of walking in the Odyssea march against breast cancer. October is often referred to as "Pinkt...

"To learn a second language, you must be willing to give your self up, the self encoded in your first one.  You are no longer a person ...

Monday morning the younger Frenchling and I will be on a flight to North America.  We have several destinations:  Seattle, WA;  Silverton, O...

"Eternity, the idea of it, is a powerful magnet for the mind, but the heart remains unmoved. It is a truism to say that we are never m...

Late last week I received this letter (yes, a real letter in an envelope with stamps and everything) from my oncologist. Madame, Je revois ...