Reunion Stories: To Be Taken Seriously Then and Now By Leonard Zwelling I have been married to the same woman for forty-five years. Our life together has been both challenging and rewarding and I wouldn’t have traded it for anything. But, sometimes, one forgets that one’s spouse had a life before she married. That life …
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The President’s Speech By Leonard Zwelling Everyone present at MD Anderson in 2011 remembers the early speeches of Dr. DePinho. He was going to cure five cancers in five years with his Moon Shot strategy and he had the video to prove it. Fortunately, most of the learned gathered in the auditorium saw through this …
What Do You Do First? By Leonard Zwelling There’s a lot to be done at MD Anderson. Making a problem list for this newly freed patient (the cancer center) doesn’t take the best resident in the class. First, there’s the money. How does one guarantee a positive revenue stream in a large, academic cancer center …
Flood By Leonard Zwelling When describing the floods in Houston for friends outside the area, I resorted to only one word. Biblical. When water piles up in the midst of a hurricane, that is not a surprise. The wind whips the trees and the true force of nature is felt. The rain is just part …
Wait By Leonard Zwelling It may be among the commonest words in pop music after “love.” Even the Beatles used it. It has also got to be one of the most frustrating words in the English language. Very few people I know like to wait. It implies patience, but it may be the opposite of …
My Four Homes By Leonard Zwelling It’s where they have to take you in when no one else will. That’s home. I have one house, but four homes. The house is in Bellaire, but my heart has four homes—four places it feels it can return to when an emotional boost is needed. Houston is still …
America’s Choices In North Korea Are Similar To The Ones Facing Academic Medical Centers: Bad and Worse By Leonard Zwelling Kim Jong Un is often described as irrational. He’s not. Kim has the US exactly where he wants it. America is faced with bad choices regarding North Korea and also worse ones. For over twenty …
Doing The Right Thing By The Newest Americans By Leonard Zwelling I am not the first person to note that the United States is a nation of immigrants. I myself am only second generation American for three-fourths of me. My paternal grandmother was actually born here, but the rest of my grandparents were not. Among …
Volunteers Of Houston By Leonard Zwelling Toilet paper. A mound of rolls that needed to be divided into plastic bags, two rolls per bag. This bag of two was then filled with two rolls of paper towels. The four roll bags were tossed on another mound. By two PM Saturday both mounds were high. Two …
Absorbing The Water By Leonard Zwelling http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/31/us/houston-harvey-flooding-urban-planning/index.html Houston has never seen flooding or any other natural disaster like the floods that accompanied Hurricane Harvey. And no other city has responded as did Houston to such a disaster. The emotional toll on the city might be every bit as heavy as that wrought by the storm …
