Re-Potting Penelope: A Scientist’s Vindication and Random Meditations
Penelope was an orchid that I brought to the Vanderbilt University Medical School Emeritus Office to decorate our conference room. Our secretary named her. Dr. Bud Friesinger, former head of the Gerontology unit in the Department of Medicine, loved her. I got the impression that he’d never before enjoyed an orchid, close up. Bud had […]