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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Events, Health, People on Aug 25th, 2009 Comments Off
I’m pleased to be able to announce that as of about an hour ago, our friend Paul has access to the Internet again. His old email address, texas-paule@t-online.de, is defunct. Please use the name as listed in the title of this post together with @Gmail.com to reach him. From what you’ve said in your correspondence [...]
Posted in Events, Health, Letter from Berlin, People on Jul 13th, 2009 5 Comments »
Posted in Health, Letter from Berlin, People on Jul 11th, 2009 4 Comments »
I’m very pleased to be able to announce that Paul is going back to his apartment on July 20th. He is, as you might imagine, quite excited and a bit anxious about the transition. And as I acknowledged to him this morning when we spoke, this is a day that at one point I frankly [...]
Posted in Events, Health, Letter from Berlin, People on Jun 20th, 2009 5 Comments »
Dr. Charles E. McClelland of the University of New Mexico is working at the University in Berlin this summer and graciously reported on the gathering for dinner on June 17 of the Berlin circle of Paul’s friends who have been helping him since his stroke. Paul seems to be recovering nicely from the stroke. I [...]
Posted in Administrative, Health, Letter from Berlin, People on May 8th, 2009 1 Comment »
Today Dr. Helmut Möller replied to a request from me for information about Paul by saying that he had picked up some of Paul’s things from his apartment and taken them to him at his new location earlier in the day. He commented that Paul’s walking was much improved and that he would be participating [...]
Posted in Health, Letter from Berlin, People on May 2nd, 2009 2 Comments »
Today I heard from Dr. Helmut Mõller that Paul has been moved to his own room in a new location where he can receive all the physical and speech therapy that he will need. Although I don’t yet have all the details of where he is or how to communicate with him in writing, Helmut [...]
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