LABYRINTHS
PROTON THERAPY
ROBERT FERRE

Robert Ferré here. My previous websites for Labyrinth Enterprises, proton beam therapy, book publishing, cruises, and personal information are now all summarized here in this single website. In my retirement, this reflects a major downsizing of cost and effort. You will still find tons of important information here about labyrinths, proton radiation, and more. Each of the introductory paragraphs below includes links to additional material.

I have also discontinued all social media, with which I was never very involved anyway and even less so now. In my world, birds tweet, clocks go tic toc, and a face book is a photo album. Hard as it may be for young folks to think such a life is worth living, my wife Linda Ricketts and I pursue a range of interests, enjoy our community, travel as able, work when we wish, keep track of family and friends, watch reruns of Seinfeld, and feel very very blessed.

Robert Ferre

It’s unbelievable to me I am approaching 80 years on this planet. Never would I have predicted reaching this age, and in such good condition, but the years just kept passing one by one and added up. Just preceding the baby boomers, I grew up in a world much more favorable than that faced by young people today (not counting the Cold War and constant threat of nuclear annihilation). Linda and I live in a lovely retirement community in San Antonio, Texas. Did I mention pickleball?
Bio, contact information

Labyrinth Enterprises

For 25 years I worked full time with all aspects of labyrinths: consulting, designing, building, teaching, giving master classes, editing, and writing instruction manuals. In the photo above, we are installing a labyrinth at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, my alma mater. In fact, I arrived to begin the labyrinth work in September 2012 exactly 50 years to the day of my arrival as a freshman in 1962. I am in the red shirt. The other worker is Marty Kermeen from www.labyrinthsinstone.com. Here is the link to a pictorial review of my labyrinth career and information about labyrinth designs and construction.

Labyrinths

Labyrinth Enterprises Publishing

I have self-published more than a dozen books in the last 25 years about labyrinths, cruises, and proton therapy. I still have a few more books in me that want to come out some day. This link leads to details about my books currently in print (or electronic) format. It also describes three books of photos and poetry by Linda, and a book about André Tchaikowsky by my brother David.
Books

Proton Therapy

Proton therapy is a revolutionary type of radiation that can treat 80% of all cancers with fewer side effects and less damage to surrounding healthy tissues than traditional photon (x-ray) radiation. Its superiority comes from its unique physical properties that result in a burst of damaging energy within the tumor, after which the proton beam stops whereas x-rays continue through the body and exit out the other side. 
I have twice experienced proton therapy, once in 2016 and once in 2021. I had no pain, virtually no side effects, and the treatments took only a matter of minutes (week days for seven weeks). So enthralled have I been with proton therapy that I have written several books on the subject and founded three websites. Those websites no longer exist, but I have included a summary of their content on this website as well as relevant links for additional information.
Proton Therapy

Andre Tchaikowsky

André Tchaikowsky was a musical genius who, when he died in 1982, bequeathed his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company in England to be used for Hamlet, and they accepted. This fascinated my brother David, who went to London for a few months and learn more about Tchaikowsky. At random he picked a real estate agent to show him apartments to rent. While en route to a property, he asked the agent if he had ever heard of André Tchaikowsky. Somewhat taken aback, the agent replied that André Tchaikowsky had lived at his house for three years! This bit of synchronicity began a 38-year project to document every aspect of Tchaikowsky’s life and make it available on a website.

For more about  André Tchaikowsky click on the following link.
ANDRE TCHAIKOWSKY

Hello, goodbye, and thank you

Thanks for visiting my new all-in-one website. I have no inter-active blog, but you are welcome to send me an email with corrections (typos, facts), questions or comments. 


Robert Ferre

robert@robertferre.com