An oil painting of a lit candle.

Sight Unseen

A blind expat's musings on life, death and the Trump era

April 23, 2026 | Rome, Italy

Present arms!

The approval of effective COVID-19 vaccines in the United States was supposed to herald a massive opening salvo of preventive [...]

M for Moderna

Though drug maker Moderna's announcement of its mRNA-1273 corona virus vaccine came a day after Pfizer made a similar (and [...]

Knauss

Knauss A friend of mine I will call Knauss for the purposes of this short piece should be dead. By [...]