What a glorious part of the country Greenville and Spartanburg, South Carolina, proved to be. And what enormously generous hosts I had in my friends
Susan Tekulve and
Rick Mulkey. We walked, we talked, we taught, we ate, we found flowers, fresh and unsnowy. In the process, I met incredible students and community members, read from
Going Over, Flow, and
Nest. Flight. Sky., and shared some thoughts about the writing life.
And then there was this: I saw old friends. The glorious Carolyn Wilson Baughman, of whom you last heard when I was in Asheville, NC, for
her sister, Katherine's, wedding. The incredible Lois Carlisle, of whom I spoke after returning from the
National YoungArts program in Miami. And Lisa Hammond (and her friend Joyce)—Lisa being the mom of another terrific National YoungArts scholar, Laura Rashley, and
a poet herself.So much good feeling. So many indelible memories. An early spring.
Thank you, Susan, Rick, Converse College, friends and community.
William Reardon, author of The Bedside Dysmorphologist: Classic Clinical Signs in Human Malformation Syndromes and their Diagnostic Significance, is Consultant Clinical Geneticist, at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland. Dysmorphology is the study of congenital malformations. Often a health professional will take note of low set ears or deep set eyes and wonder whether it indicates a more serious genetic disorder. In his book Reardon provides an effective guide to identifying malformations and determining their clinical significance. In the excerpt below Reardon looks at Deep-Set Eyes.
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