Happy Birthday Paul
Posted in Letter from Berlin on Mar 3rd, 2011 Comments Off
Today is Paul’s 87th birthday and the first since his death last October.
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Remembering Paul
Posted in Letter from Berlin, Memories, People on Oct 16th, 2010 5 Comments »
Our friend Paul left this “veil of tears,” as I often heard him refer to it, on Monday October 11, 2010, after suffering almost two years of continuing decline in his faculties due to the effects of the stroke he suffered in early 2009. In the years between the time he and I met online [...]
News of Paul at the nursing home
Posted in Health, Letter from Berlin, People on Aug 14th, 2010 2 Comments »
Dr. Wolfgang Petri has been my primary source of information over the last few months about what is happening with Paul. Yesterday he sent me this photo of Paul that he took during his visit with him at his new place of residence on Thursday August 12th. I was encouraged to receive a picture showing [...]
The latest news about Paul
Posted in Health, Letter from Berlin on Jun 10th, 2010 5 Comments »
It’s been over two months since I’ve provided you an update on Paul’s situation, but to be honest that was intentional. For a time, things were changing frequently enough that posting timely updates would have revealed more transient details than were necessary or appropriate. He left the rehabilitation center after two or three weeks and [...]
My friend, Paul
Posted in Letter from Berlin, Memories, People, Reflections on Mar 3rd, 2010 9 Comments »
I wrote this same essay almost 10 years ago (here), but time has passed and it’s due for an update. I can’t think of a better time to do that than on his birthday — March 3, 2010. Paul and I met, as I said in that first essay, online in iLink Writers in the [...]
A Progress report
Posted in Health, Letter from Berlin, People on Feb 3rd, 2010 9 Comments »
This is Perry rather than Paul and I must begin by apologizing to those of you who’ve been looking here for an update on Paul’s condition for a long time. I have no excuse, but here it finally is. I’ve just spent the last 45 minutes on the phone with him, helping him resolve a [...]
Paul sends his greetings
Posted in Health, Letter from Berlin on Dec 9th, 2009 Comments Off
I have just gotten off the phone with Paul and he asked that I post something here on his blog to let you all know that he wishes you Happy Holidays and that he sends his gratitude for all of your expressions of concern and thoughtfulness. He is still seeing his speech therapists at his [...]
This is what Paul would post if he were able.
Posted in Letter from Berlin, Life and culture, Memories, Reflections on Oct 21st, 2009 2 Comments »
From all I know about Paul, I believe he might have posted this if he were able to do so. Soundscapes – by Ace Norton from IE HAGY on Vimeo. My most recent conversations with him indicate that he is doing as well as can be expected, but his stroke, coupled with his apparently approaching [...]
An update
Posted in Health, Letter from Berlin on Oct 7th, 2009 Comments Off
As you’ll know if you’ve been following this blog and trying to keep up with Paul’s condition, he was released to go home on 20 July but it was only on 25 August that he finally regained connection to the Internet. Since then there have been a few hitches in sustaining his Internet connection, but [...]
Everything old is new again
Posted in Letter from Berlin, Life and culture, Memory Lane on Aug 1st, 2009 Comments Off
The other day when Paul and I were talking, I mentioned that I had heard this piece on NPR by Robert Krulwich about the fact that crows apparently can recognize and remember people’s faces and then evidently seek them out for particular scorn. As we talked I reminded him that he had written about an [...]
