My BOOKS
On Being Born
Just before the first Covid-19 lockdown, my mother died just two months before her 95th birthday. Reflecting about her role in giving me the gift of life, I decided to write a series of short essays starting with my birth, but quickly broadening to the whole subject of childbirth and its history. This book is dedicated to my mother's memory, but it is also intended to be a celebration of all mothers and their role in giving us all a start in life. It is also about the development of techniques to assist women at childbirth, which is a fascinating story, from the the first forceps to ultrasound and beyond.
Let's Look At The Sun
We're taught to never look directly at the Sun--wise advice for our eyes, but no for our hearts and minds. In this book I take an extraordinary journey to do just that: to see the Sun not just as a blazing sphere in the sky, but as the silent architect of our life, timekeeper of our days, and cosmic storyteller woven into the fabric of history, religion, and human imagination. This book invites the reader to discover what has been hiding in plain sight. The Star of our lives, literally and