Long before I was a high school English teacher, I may have been a drug trafficker.The National Geographic TV show How to Catch a Smuggler first...
As a physician and public health advocate who took a lifelong professional oath to protect, defend, educate and support the patients I serve each...
Twenty years ago, Nancy and I lived next door to a psychiatrist for several months. He specialized in treating people who suffered from “writer’s...
As the nation continues to recover from the ravages of the Trump presidency — our diminished standing in the world, a crippled economy, the...
In 2008, with little warning, my husband, Andy, was asked to leave a job he loved and excelled at. It was a total shock. From my vantage point, I...
In an essay in Wednesday’s New York Times, Michael Eric Dyson, a Baptist minister and Vanderbilt professor, made an eloquent argument for the power...
Perhaps one of the most shocking elements of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the cataclysmic partisan split over how to address a public health...
Our Christmas was muted; New Year’s has been sterilized, driven online or canceled; and winter appears to be clamping down upon us at last. Time to...