My Mother’s family was captured by KGB in the first week of WWII. Her dad, my beloved Grandfather, was an estate owner and Officer in the Polish Cavalry. The eldest of three children, Mom was in third grade when two Russian soldiers armed with machine guns entered her classroom and announced her name. Standing at … Continue reading FORUM: Discrimination

Friends in graduate school (https://odajournal.com/2021/01/13/nicknames/), Head, Grauton, Rayton and I lived by Lake Michigan on Chicago’s north side. School was done and we were working—some of us part-time. Still single, we enjoyed hanging out together when our schedules allowed. I was teaching part-time at University of Illinois, financially scraping by. I’d interviewed for a position … Continue reading FORUM: First Time Treating

I was in my second year as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Medical School. I worked in the Department of General Internal Medicine, which addresses an enormous range of ailments, conditions and situations. Simultaneously I held a position as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Academic Psychology at the University of Illinois at … Continue reading FORUM: Tea Time with Yarnold

I was quite young—I can’t reliably be very precise. I moved so often during some of my early years that my memory of space and time are disoriented. Everyone who was with me then has passed away. Thus any estimates made of dates and ages during high-flux periods are likely to be inaccurate. I’d guess … Continue reading FORUM: First Professional Call

I was a soon-to-be third-year graduate student in academic psychology, in the school which was initiated by one of my top-ten heroes, Sir Isaac Newton: his studies of the apparent movement of stars in the sky became the field of vision psychophysiology. I had many brilliant, talented, fun friends in the psychology graduate program of … Continue reading FORUM: Nicknames

Two dear friends listened to me read aloud my post, “Step-by-Step” (https://odajournal.com/2021/01/02/forum-step-by-step/). They asked me if I recalled when others first began to recognize “gifts” which I was given. I had never considered this question, but I was pleasantly surprised to immediately recall two such incidences. As I began to write this story, I recalled … Continue reading FORUM: Recognizing Gifts

I was a 4th grade student in public school in Sierra Vista, which at that time was a small but growing Arizona town: https://visit.sierravistaaz.gov/. The house was located at the outskirts of town—we were feet from the Sonoran Desert: https://www.desertmuseum.org/desert/sonora.php. Dad was a mathematical statistician from the University of Chicago. He worked long hours in … Continue reading FORUM: Step-by-Step