David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
Navigating Apps with Changes in Memory: Join Our Study
December 2, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine seeks older adults with mild memory loss for a study on improving navigation apps. Participation is valuable,...
Traveling Without A Passport – Free Chapter
San Francisco, March 1976 On the morning after I moved into my apartment on Ashbury, wet snow dropped over parts of San Francisco, mostly on Portrero Hill, the boyhood neighborhood of O. J. Simpson. It was an event I was…
Is It Always a Love Story?
Is It Always a Love Story? Chapter One On the day I came home from the war — a phrase still tossed around like iceberg lettuce in the cultural salad, in spite of its saturation — the shock was…
The Garden of What Was and Was Not
November 22, 1963 I generally enjoyed Miss Izak’s class, brightened as it was by her effervescence, even though I was failing, just as I’d previously failed Latin. Gene, a born smart ass, and Billy, his frequent target, were involved…
The Witch Next Door
by David Stone Holy Shit Christmas Eve, snow finally fell from an infinitely gray overcast, hovering since dawn and hanging motionless into the afternoon. Still coming down hard after dark, it resolved the village below us in a pinkish…
What If You Died Right Now…?
What is you died right now…? Meditators say they’ve had out of body experiences, giving them insights into the other, spiritual side. But are they complete? Do they really tell us about life after death…? By David Stone Assorted Ideas,…
1966: The Garden of What Was and Was Not
In Binghamton, March 1966 Here is what finally became of Ginny or, I should say, the parallel paths we once shared, then separated. (Following is an excerpt from The Garden of What Was and Was Not.) In America, the…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor