Category Archives: Personal history

L&Cs: The Ethics of Transplants

Posted on Sunday 28 November 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Today six and a half of us took five hours to buy two Christmas trees. The piece here was in the New York Times today, posted online four days ago. It’s relevant not just because I went through the transplant … Continue reading →

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Family History Mystery

Posted on Tuesday 26 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

–Solved. Glacier Lake, 1965.

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Personal History: View from the East Coast of England

Posted on Thursday 21 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

This is one of my two favorite photos that I’ve taken in my entire life. This is a photographed snapshot. It’s a view from the east coast of England, when I visited the place my parents lived in the 1950s … Continue reading →

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Personal History: World Fantasy Con Badges

Posted on Sunday 17 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

One more set of badges with commentary for today, then I’ll move on to other things, and catch up on links and comments. Today: badges from World Fantasy Conventions.

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Personal History: Worldcon Badges

Posted on Saturday 16 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Another afternoon of sorting and photographing photos and artifacts. For today, here’s a group shot of badges I’ve collected from the World Science Fiction Conventions (Worldcons for short) over the years.

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Personal History: Work Badges and Travel

Posted on Friday 15 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

I’m going through — one more time! — artifacts of my family’s life, and my own life, that have been gathering dust in a couple closets, determined once and for all to take photographs and write up descriptions of them, … Continue reading →

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Afternoon Drive: M440i

Posted on Sunday 10 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Yesterday we took a three-hour drive, with a lunch stop part-way through, but since I didn’t take any photos along the way, it didn’t happen, by some internet standards.

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How to Read a Book

Posted on Wednesday 29 September 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

I posted this on Fb last night, perhaps a bit intemperately and incompletely, upon publication of this book yesterday, Sept. 28th.

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Status Today: Recovering Into the Twilight

Posted on Monday 27 September 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Here’s a personal status post, about only me myself, with no links to or commentary about the outside world.

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Personal History: My Lost Week

Posted on Friday 17 September 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

I’ve written twice here about my most recent hospital stay, beginning in late April and moving through heart and kidney transplants in May and returning home in mid-June. First was this fairly lengthy one, 2021: My Heart & Kidney Transplants, … Continue reading →

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