After writing more or less seriously for several years, I am fascinated by a question: ‘why people write?’ I know why I started. My father already…
The Largest Military Effort by Resistance Forces During WWII
Seventy-two years ago, on September 1st, Warsaw exploded. Two, may be three generations past. How many people still remember it? How many of them, who saw…
Anger in the operating room
This scene looks familiar to most people who ever worked in the operating room. A high-power doctor, say a cardiac surgeon, is doing a long and…
Story behind the picture
There are no colleges in Poland. In our last year of high school, we had to decide where to continue our education. To help us make…
Getting Out a Good Book Takes Much Longer Than to Read It
“You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what’s burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.”…
The Best Father’s Day Present Ever.
During my years in California, while in a private practice of cardiovascular surgery, I was elected the president of the local chapter of the American Heart…
The Year of the 21-year-old Goaltender
It’s not enough to say they are a different breed. They must be crazy to stay in the way of a piece of rubber traveling in…
The Ups and Downs of the Performer
Just imagine…. Imagine yourself in front of 18,000 people in a tightly packed arena. You have been waiting for this opportunity throughout your entire life. The…
Would You Have the Courage to Stop Treatment of the Advanced Cancer?
We’ve known each other for close to forty years. She was a good friend of mine and a former wife of my close buddy. I visited…