Taken by the author. Mukwonago, WI. Oct 2016. One of the most heart-wrenching things I witness at work is people saying goodbye to their...

There was a heartbeat. I saw it on the ultrasound, but I knew immediately something wasn’t quite right. Was it too slow? Yes, the ultrasoun...

Last year I posted about trying to cope with my moms breast cancer recurrence.  Four years ago my mother was diagnosed with Stage I breast c...

About a week ago, I awoke to the news of the Orlando mass shooting-that 49 people had been murdered in the Pulse nightclub--for no other rea...

One of my mother's cousins died yesterday. I hadn't seen in her a long time - there's a fair amount of distance in my family, ...

As a pediatrician who is constantly answering children’s questions --my own ( staving off bedtime ) and my patients who ask everything-- I l...

It’s been a while since he died.     And yet…    He is with me daily as I see him in my children, in my own interactions (when I’m...