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My life with telescopes
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
“You have a telescope! Use it much? What can you see? Can we take it outside and look at the moon?” Our visitor is asking about the telescope in the corner or our living...
On growing old gracefully – or not
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
As I sit at my desk in a too quiet house, I am thinking about my wife who is spending the day with a friend on a senior citizens’ bus trip to view the New England countryside...
Finding the light
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
In March, I wrote about the challenge of walking in the dark, finding our way in life through a series of decisions guided in each case by unreliable and insufficient...
How to walk in the dark
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
“You don’t need to know a whole book in order to write the first page. You need only the desire to create something that will say what you feel needs to be said,...
Becoming an influencer
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
What’s the world coming to when our children dream of becoming YouTube influencers when they grow up? Not so long ago, I came across a study conducted by the Lego corporation...
Surreal Alaska
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
The world is on the move again. With COVID under better control and most people just tired of being confined, airports are crowded, flights are delayed and cruise ships are...
My life in the library
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
When I retired from my hospital position nearly seven years ago, I moved my office to the public library. It was an easy move – no furniture to rearrange at home or haul...
Cleaning the closet of doubt
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
Now that I can see the top of my desk again, it’s good to get back to the keyboard and set down in writing some thoughts about the everyday life of a retired psychologist. In...
Love letters from London
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
Tucked between the pages of a thin, spiral notebook with a plain brown cover, I keep two letters that came to me from London in the summer of 1970 after my first year of...
How many photos do we really need?
By Alan Bodnar Ph.D.
I’m getting to know the folks at Apple pretty well, from the greeters with their iPads at the front of their mall store, the geniuses at the big table up front, to the good...