Toothpaste splattered the mirror. I brushed the vomit taste off my tongue. I had hurled after riding a rollercoaster with a corkscrew turn. My cousin …

Just before graduation from basic training in the Air Force in 1971, I learned what my next base was and what my AFSC (Air Force …

I still take my glasses off occasionally and look at Christmas trees, just to see the sight I did before glasses. In 1992, I decorated …

At home, I ran through the house to stand on the back porch looking north at the Ball Brothers factory, hundreds of feet away. I …

In January 1961, my third-grade teacher, Mrs. Singer, recognized that I needed glasses from watching me squinting constantly. She sent a note home, but my …

I didn’t get to use this technique until I was 25. I was working on my doctorate, and I was teaching part-time at a community …