tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092972326426195430.post2414367446908423458..comments2024-02-27T01:35:20.246-08:00Comments on Robin's Roundup: Good night, sleep tight!Robin Adelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16175305295163454365noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092972326426195430.post-58249113304620178242010-12-15T19:47:36.284-08:002010-12-15T19:47:36.284-08:00Dec. 15, 2010 Ottawa, Ontario K1H 7B8
My dear...Dec. 15, 2010 Ottawa, Ontario K1H 7B8<br />My dearest Robin, As you unsatiably exhort your readers, keep on ... Your blogs, however,<br />I peruse. I haven't looked this up lately in Webster's, but my sense is that it pertains to more than "just reading" -- more to searching for motives, aims, themes of relevance, and simply how I've been going about writing of late. My lengthiest [?] was the Tubby Legend;<br />usually, it has been a remark, a controversy or an opinion that brought out the skeptic in me,<br />more often a statement such as: "Well ... that's the way it's done!" (My rhetoric and causticism recently came out when the author <br />(Abraham Verghese - "Cutting for Stone") was written up in the NY Times, deploring the "dying<br />art of the physical exam" (replaced by tests, MRI's, etc) much as I have bemoaned the Dying<br />practice of the 'house call'. <br /> So, too, your mini-essays -- very personal, but this adds to the deeper wisdom you relate. While you are writing about Kyla,<br />don't forget to mention your usual admonition to "stop laughing! while you are still telling your story." Cute! But VERY memorable for me.<br /> I would like to hear what your girls thought of the Tubby story and my request for ideas for the next 4 chapters of his 'odyssey'.<br /> Keep on, Robin. Your messages are reaching this far north and the 'heart-warming' they induce is most welcome. With love, DavidAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com