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Monday – waiting for the Ferguson decision
Last Monday morning, like most mornings, my commute was in the company of NPR, which, like all the news outlets, was describing the preparations in Ferguson, MO, anticipating the announcement of the Grand Jury decision. My last patient of the day was a man I have taken care of for some time, but this appointment…
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What informs your reading?
It’s book club day at From Left To Write, and I’ve been scrambling to get far enough into this book, J, to write something informed about it (full disclosure, I haven’t finished reading it, but it’s definitely grabbed my attention!). And, as I read, I find that my reading is being informed by podcasts that…
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FaceBook, across the political spectrum
My daughter recently asked me: why do you keep engaging these people on facebook?! I understand the desire for conversation across political sides, but they don’t seem capable of rationality, or reading comprehension (if they’d at least post counter-arguments that were coherent, that’d be something) If you are a “friend” of mine on FaceBook, you’ll…
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The Anarchist Soccer Mom: Thinking the Unthinkable
The Anarchist Soccer Mom: Thinking the Unthinkable. I am sharing this story because I am Adam Lanza’s mother. I am Dylan Klebold’s and Eric Harris’s mother. I am Jason Holmes’s mother. I am Jared Loughner’s mother. I am Seung-Hui Cho’s mother. And these boys—and their mothers—need help. In the wake of another horrific national tragedy,…
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Digging your way out of the pit of despair
I’m reblogging this, not because I agree with it, but because it has touched a nerve that is always raw for me, both on a personal level and on a professional level, and I intend to expand on that thought tonight…but, I didn’t want to lose my thought. The first paragraph is highly offensive (to…
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Veterans Day, Observed
I had to work today – so I drove in to work, but, as it happened, I ended up listening to a New Yorker – Out Loud podcast: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/10/out-loud-reckoning-with-iraq.html From the website: “In the current issue of The New Yorker, Dexter Filkins writes about an ex-Marine seeking forgiveness from the family of the Iraqi civilians his unit killed.…