Why did the Cat Lose its Head Paul Bock, 2025 There is an old folk story, short enough to be told in a breath and sharp enough to be remembered for a lifetime. A cat crosses a railway track, carefully watching his tail so that nothing might happen to it. He is so...
The Mysteries of Life
The Essence of Time
The Essence of Time Paul Bock, November 2025 According to Harvey MacKey[1]: “Time is free, but it’s priceless.You can’t own it, but you can use it.You can’t keep it, but you can spend it.Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.”Time is the great equalizer; it...
The Geometry of the Soul: What Your Freeway Lane Says About You
The Geometry of the Soul: What Your Freeway Lane Says About You Paul Bock, 2025 The freeway. That long, asphalt ribbon, a modern river carrying a hurried civilization from Point A to the next point of urgency. To the uninitiated, it’s just traffic. But to the amateur...
From Scrooge to Nero: A Journey Along the Money Spectrum
From Scrooge to Nero: A Journey Along the Money Spectrum Paul Bock, 2025 Money has a peculiar way of revealing the soul. Some clutch it, some fling it, and others strike a delicate balance—trying to spend with purpose and save with wisdom. Humanity’s history is rich...
Medical Fads
In the 1950s post-menopausal women underwent examinations using a spirometer and the doctors drew conclusions of thyroid activity and many times they extirpated the thyroid. This was indeed called a “basal metabolism test” or sometimes a “metabolism check.” Doctors...
The Father Of Anesthesia in Romania
My letter to the medical community of Oradea, 2016. Dr. Alexandru (Sandy) Dobjanschi was my first cousin, the son of one of my motherly aunts, Rózsi, and the great-great grandson of a Polish general, who had to flee Poland after the 1848 Polish revolution. Dr....
The Secrets of Good Marriage
My wife and I were visiting the Railroad Museum in New Delhi. It was a Tuesday afternoon, our last day in India. Among the few visitors, we noted a young couple, with three children, two boys and a little girl, all under ten years of age. As we were watching the...
There are three kinds of people
There are three kinds of people: those who live in the past, those who live in the present and those who live in the future. None is better or superior to the other, they are only different. Fitting them into one of the three categories is important in explaining how...