Heedless Knowledge

Man always knows his life will shortly cease,

Yet madly lives as if he knew it not.

Child's Perspective on Death

My 4-year-old granddaughter and I were talking one day about death. Her grandfather has cancer and I wanted to prepare her for the inevitable. She didn't ...

Later Never Comes

For weeks after my last operation [for cancer] -- frail and without energy, sleeping 10 hours--I looked in my house at all the books I had not read and ...

The Time of Our Lives

Time is life--nothing more, nothing less. The way you spend your hours and your days is the way you spend your life.