“My Mother”: Karen Gershon’s mother and daughters in her poems

An illusive cyst: should my mother have had her surgery?

An ultrasound showed about 2x1 cm cystic lesion in the body of pancreas. This followed by a referral for the abdominal CT scan that was done 1-month later and showed a “2 cm lobulated cystic lesion in the neck of pancreas with no pancreatic duct dilatation”. Due to a suspicion of MCN, she was referred for a pancreatic endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) with biopsy. EUS (#1) was done soon after at the ...

Mother Merge and Her Children1

This paper examines in detail the proposition that a set of fundamental syntactic relations (domination, sisterhood, c-command, etc) can be founded in the computational operation Merge, itself taken to be fundamental and indispensable. In doing this, it pursues one aspect of minimalist methodology in an unusually rigorous fashion. The outcome of the investigation is that Chomsky’s initial appro...

My mother the gardener.

M Y MOTHER DIED AT AGE 90 YEARS FROM complications of a fall at home. The “at home” part was the triumph of her last decade. Having spent 3 years in a German slave camp during World War II, she was terrified of institutional settings. Assistedliving facilities and nursing homes were tantamount to prisons, in my mother’s view, and woe to anyone who suggested otherwise. As a HIPAA (Health Insuran...

My mother, the wave

The checkpoint of death ells that fail to turn on a signaling pathway as instructed go on to commit suicide, according to Olivier Micheau and Jürg Tschopp (University of Lausanne, Switzerland). This checkpoint mechanism may ensure that aberrant signalers do not survive to form tumors or inappropriate cell types. The mechanism explains how death and differentiation are coordinated from a single ...

In memory of my mother and father