http://thetreasuretower.storeblogs.com The world behind the site Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:28:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Several years ago, I had the good fortune to visit Hiroshima, Japan. I say good fortune because I believe that every human being on earth should visit this City and view the Museum there. Regardless of your beliefs regarding the war and the atrocities that occurred, nothing can compare to ... http://thetreasuretower.storeblogs.com/2009/11/24/in-this-season-of-hope-for-peace-pray-for-no-more-nuclear-war I think everyone probably remembers having a junk drawer in the kitchen when they grew up. For some reason it was always in the kitchen, usually one of those really shallow drawers, near a phone (in the old days, when phones were stuck to the wall). The junk drawer somehow ... http://thetreasuretower.storeblogs.com/2009/10/18/the-new-junk-drawer-in-the-digital-age-and-a-great-charity-event I remember, in the dark ages, when I would get so excited with the thought of back to school - with it's required shopping, including clothes and school supplies. How many of you remember the smell of new books when you cracked them open, and pencils freshly sharpened, and the ... http://thetreasuretower.storeblogs.com/2009/09/23/back-to-school-in-the-digital-age As we wait for the remnants of Tropical Storm Danny to pass by Long Island, where I live, I thought of all those who passed away and those whose lives were forever altered by Hurricane Katrina, a storm that hit this very day. For those of you who do not ... http://thetreasuretower.storeblogs.com/2009/08/29/of-hope-and-hurricanes There is a famous quote by Mahatma Gandhi "Be the change you wish to see in the world". Sometimes I wonder how many people actually live that way. I certainly hear a lot of complaints about how the world is going these days, especially about the government and how everything ... http://thetreasuretower.storeblogs.com/2009/08/09/human-revolution-or-be-the-change-you-wish-to-see-in-the-world I was in the elevator the other day with a very dignified older gentleman (I work in a hospital), when suddenly the unmistakeable sound of "Jumpin Jack Flash" eminated from his pocket. It got me to wondering who this person was, and what the Rolling Stones meant to him. Had ... http://thetreasuretower.storeblogs.com/2009/07/29/what-your-ringtone-says-about-you Ok - so health care reform is an odd topic for a blog about an accessories website - but for those of you who haven't read my other posts, in "real life" I am a doctor specializing in kidney disease. This month I am working with the new trainees, seeing ... http://thetreasuretower.storeblogs.com/2009/07/15/and-now-for-something-completely-different-health-care-reform If you don't live in the Northeast, you might not know that it has now rained for forty days and forty nights (well at least it seems that way). Seriously, we have not seen the sun since May, and my lawn has turned into a field of mushrooms. I am ... http://thetreasuretower.storeblogs.com/2009/06/20/rain-rain-go-away Recently I have been having many discussions with my teenaged kids about the "unfairness" of life - usually around some rather non-Earth shattering topic such as the fact that the only job one could get requires working on the weekend, or that one of the others has two NY State ... http://thetreasuretower.storeblogs.com/2009/06/14/is-life-fair-a-lesson-in-karma I am writing this post from Boston, where I am attending the American Transplant Congress, somewhat misnamed, as there are as many members attending from Europe and Asia as there are from the Americas. It is one of the premiere meetings for transplant professionals, and this year they started a ... http://thetreasuretower.storeblogs.com/2009/06/02/the-nature-of-sacrifice-and-dreams