Teachers and Doctors
When I was student teaching, my mentor teacher said, “You can teach a teacher how to be a better teacher;Continue Reading
Category: Cancer
Upside Down
This weekend, I spent time with some old friends. Sitting by a lake, bundled in layers of blankets and sweatersContinue Reading
Words
Yesterday, I flew home from Florida. I sat in my aisle seat in row 12, thinking about the last timeContinue Reading
The Fact of Death
I didn’t conceive of death… actual death… until I was 27 years old. It was the middle of the night,Continue Reading
The Person We Become
I’ve searched and thought about the right words to describe this: going to Jeff’s first oncology appointment. May 1, 2018Continue Reading
Grief’s Magic Trick
My favorite authors are people who have words to describe things that I may have intuitively known, but didn’t haveContinue Reading
