Month: March 2025

Jacques Donatien LeRay de Chaumont: On our way from Toronto to Maine, we passed by Fort Drum in upstate New York. I’d never heard of Fort Drum and, once in our hotel room, a half-day from our destination, I looked it up and fell down a rabbit hole. As it turns out, on the grounds … [Read more…]

At the end of my Thursday follow-up visit with my new optometrist, he announced “You’re officially post-cataract surgery now.” For the first time in 71 years, I have 20/20 vision and no need for glasses. It still seems unbelievable. The first ophthalmologist, to whom I was referred for cataract surgery, would not meet with or … [Read more…]