After the Rain

The clouds parted and the sun rained down on puddles.

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Passing Through

Driving along First Street in Newark yesterday,

returning from a doctor's appointment,

came to a red light.

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More Pickup Lines

"In A Mellotone," a great 1939 Ellington tune, is also what I'm striving for today, on doctor's orders.

So without further ado, let's return to the subject this blog began with back in March.

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Last Medical Post. For Now.

In 2005, my father, Mel Levin, who was suffering from Alzheimer's, fell while walking with my mother, Roz, in their West Orange neighborhood.

He was not seriously injured, but he spent the next several days in confusion and pain in a room in St. Barnabus Hospital in Livingston.

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"I'd be Equally as Willing For a Dentist to be Drilling...

...than to ever let a woman in my life!" I first heard that hilariously mysogynistic song from My Fair Lady when I was about eight and my parents brought home the soundtrack recording from the Broadway theater.

That minds could joke about going to the dentist only confirmed my sense that life was full of temptations and pitfalls I could barely imagine. Back then, shadows on my bedroom wall--let alone knowing I had a dentist's appointment the next day--could keep me awake for hours.

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Grounded For The Holiday

I made it through the first five days after my freak accident fairly well. I had what my doctors called a  "minor concussion," meaning I could expect several days or more of headaches and sleeplessness. Well, nothing unusual about that!

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In the Examining Room

I was in my doctor's office in Springfield, shirt off, waiting for a checkup, when I realized I was not alone.

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