The man and the man-eater
![Eye of the tiger](https://www.sitoso.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ralph-mayhew-EiGBmms-alk-unsplash.jpg)
Our African adventure jogged a few memories. Stories about my grandfather heard in bits and pieces. Some narrated by his sons, some gleaned from his diaries I stumbled upon.
Mistress of my soul
All these years, I had bottled up Conscience, the mistress of my soul, deep under multiple layers of fat accumulated over five decades.
I am sorry, it is cancer
Initially it was a search for answers, trying to find the strength to comfort my wife, and coming to terms with what we thought usually happened to someone else.
Sleep Clinic
![sleep, smiley, tired](https://www.sitoso.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/sleep-smiley-tired-2001207-1024x1010.jpg)
Sometime in the middle of the night I woke up to a series of tremors. I felt I was standing in the middle of Grand Central Station sometime in the sixties watching the trains go by.