WALTER A. ROSENBLITH Footnotes to the Recent History of Neuroscience: Personal Reflections and Microstories The workshop upon which this volume is based offered me an opportunity to renew contact fairly painlessly with workers in the brain sciences, not just as a participant/observer but maybe as what might be called a teller of microstories. I had originally become curious about the brain by way of my wife's senior thesis, in which she attempted to relate electroencephalography to certain aspects of human behavior. As a then-budding physicist and communications engineer, I had barely heard...

Roxanne was only seventeen, when she was raped and beaten into unconsciousness not remembering who or why anyone would do this to her. Roxanne having to live with the guilt of not remembering if she had contributed to the death of her seven year old sister Tonja, or what happened to her that same night; left Roxanne more confused and guilt ridden. Soliciting the help of her best friend Gloria, Roxanne asked her to revisit the night when it all went wrong. Roxanne's mother Mabel tells Gloria that she doesn't think that bringing up such a horrible tragedy would help Roxanne at all, and tells...

The story of a young woman who lives for vengeance after her father is murdered.

When Kathryn Cool's son, Jason, is killed during a gas station robbery, she takes parental custody of his murderer, Jeremy Warner, intent on making him pay for the crime personally.

When Kathryn Cool's son, Jason, is killed during a gas station robbery, she takes parental custody of his murderer, Jeremy Warner, intent on making him pay for the crime personally.