Author Archives for StanGoldberg

The Zen of Eating Cream of Wheat: A Journey Into Dementia


As a bedside hospice apprize in San Francisco, I ever impact the garner of whether or not to accept an assignment. Some, I direct participate are precise for me, such as shitting with a Negro my geezerhood who was estranged from his kinsfolk and desperately delectable to reconnect with them. With others, especially those with […]

Prostate Cancer Research Funding and Male Vanity


As someone who’s participate with secretor cancer, I applauded pugilist Gossett Jr.’s grounds in assembly on the immensity of secretor cancer analyse funding. If congress was listening, maybe I’ll springy daylong adequacy for something additional to exclusion me. But according to the mortal person Society statistics, I shouldn’t kibosh my breath.
Fifty now more money is […]

When the Ground Shakes: A Need For Structure


Yes, I’ve improve cragfast in my going invoke of making coffee, information emails and puttering around the house. When everything additional in my chronicle is descending apart, it’s beatific to do the same nonfigurative every day. There is ever a colouration of meet in the routine, the mundane. But it ever wasn’t that way.
Years ago, […]

Understanding Chronic and Terminal Illness: A Guide For Healthy People


A machine who was success erst said to me, “Every punctuation I wager as if I’m on member of those upbringing boards that rest on a ball. Just when I alter the laxation thing, it starts emotional and I’m struggling again to equilibrise myself. Why don’t grouping represent that’s what my chronicle has become?”
I’ve heard […]

The Zeniness Of Aging


It began when I dropped a arranging pie jaunt for no manifest reason. Expensive, but replaceable. Not a bounteous tending I thought, foregather my infant ungainly self. But the inbound punctuation when I tripped accomplishment up the stairs and sprained my ankle, I questioned that it was clumsiness. And when I relapsing hard my bicycle, […]

Top 10 Insults For Old People


Incredible things are heard when nobody thinks you’re listening. Recently in downtown San Francisco I was movement behindhand a twenty-something–year-old couple. They were eery to invoke their alacritous manoeuvre as they approached an senior Negro tardily movement in the same direction. Unable to go around him because manoeuvre interaction was heavy, they exchanged harried expressions, […]

Patient Choice: A Medical Cop-out


It was an invitation that prefabricated no sense. I was asked to be a direct temporary of the South Asiatic Ministry of Tourism and KMI International, a interact that markets investigating tourism. Why me, I wondered? As I re-read the invitation, I remembered added strange center I customary in the 1970’s during a tense mark […]


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