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October 31, 2022
Setting Sights on Renewal
Now more than ever, I’d like to focus on renewal. It feels overdue after three tumultuous years. In what feels like another lifetime, November 2019, I happily dove into a glass half-full. I looked ahead, joyfully, to a new decade. New academic and writing successes blossomed one after another. Travel plans fired my imagination. My...
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July 6, 2022
Embracing Serenity
Serenity amid tumult isn’t easy to find. Nature’s beauty reminds us to pause and breathe. This is one of a few peaceful scenes I captured on ‘sanity walks’ in Michigan last month. Grateful now to be home. Slowly unwinding … embracing the calm while it lasts.
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June 23, 2022
Parallel Universe Reveals Hard Truths
Greetings from the 95+ plus degree Detroit area heat. It’s day 25 of 32 in my parallel universe. I arrived on the eve of Memorial Day in the Detroit area 26 years ago to the day after I packed my bags to pursue a new life out west. My original plan to enjoy June 2022...
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May 2, 2022
Let’s Flow Freely This Weekend
Late April, early May brings a certain incessant MD marketing madness. Serenity now, right? Curious to know your frame of mind as we approach the second Sunday in May this year. It could range from fragile to numbingly indifferent to WTF awful. All or none of the above or anything in between. There is no...
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April 21, 2022
That’s Life, Strap In
Bronchitis has left the room. Good riddance one month of debilitating exhaustion. Three weeks of high-dose prednisone (a shrew-making steroid if there ever was one) plus regular rescue inhaler. Ten days of antibiotics. Twice-daily plus corticosteroid inhaler and nasal spray. Deep, glorious breaths. Life is good. So great to be back to something resembling normal....
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March 22, 2022
Tribalism: From Kinship to Tyranny
Tribalism at its best provides a haven and kinship. Who doesn’t like to feel accepted and validated? Tribalism at its worst, however, fuels misunderstandings, culture wars and, at the extreme, ugliness. Most of us have witnessed or encountered all of the above. My latest tribal experience stemmed from my participation in Slate‘s podcast, What I...
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March 10, 2022
Empathy: The Glue That Holds Humanity Together
There are few things harder than bearing witness to suffering, grief, or pain. When we hear someone’s sorrow in their breaking voice, our hearts clench. Tears fall. Empathy, the glue that holds humanity together, kicks in. Empathy causes us to ache. We cast about, sometimes helplessly, to find a way to bring some comfort. That’s...
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February 2, 2022
Pandemic Elicits Curious Time Space Musings
Groundhogs Day, the movie, once again feels fitting as we head into two-plus years of pandemic strangeness. That’s just one film comparison. There are others (and various analogies) that also come to mind. Take the sci-fi space-related films The Martian or The Midnight Sky. If I may riff further. In many ways our house, now […]
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January 31, 2022
February 2022 Means 15 Years of Blogging
February, please! First, I’m not gonna lie. January 2022 tested me in a big way. Some might have viewed Omicron as nothing more than an inconvenient speed bump. That wasn’t how I saw it. While fully vaccinated and boosted, the very idea of a *more* transmissible variant prompted dread. Why? I’ve had more than enough […]
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December 13, 2021
Childless Not by Choice Voices Heard
Childless Not by Choice (CNBC) folk don’t often get much visibility. That’s why I was surprised when an email query landed in my inbox several weeks ago. It came at the same time my husband was in pre-op for outpatient surgery. Suffice to say, I knew how I’d be spending my time in the waiting […]
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