Not a single story
So many layers. It always amazes me how we bring many lenses to any situation and these are how we see the world. Some, well maybe most of us, have several lenses, or maybe should. What do you think?...
View ArticleFragments
Sometimes those fragments of time that occur in the cracks between the “regular” stuff of scheduled life are so full that there is no time to even contemplate a blog entry. There are simply no moments...
View Articlewriting about patients
Sitting in a coffee shop, I anxiously awaited one of my patients. I invited him to meet with me to read the story I wrote about what I learned within our working together over a period of more than 15...
View ArticleWomen Authoring Change
In the past I wrote about Hedgebrook. (radical hospitality) And I shared about the women who were there when I was. women writers And their cook book (here) is amazing, reminding me of the weight I...
View ArticleTeams, gratitude, and goodbyes
We had a lot of fun in our hours together in the Labor and Delivery Suite at Virginia Mason Hospital, Seattle, from 1983 until 1989, when I left to take my practice to the University. “We” would be the...
View ArticleHeart Murmurs- What Patients Teach their Doctors…Available Now at a 30% discount
Available now! Click on the link below. (I cannot seem to import the image to show as an image). I hope you will get it, enjoy it, learn from it, celebrate with all of us authors whose stories are in...
View ArticleThe Reverand Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Key Note at Mt. Zion Baptist...
I am pleased to post this guest blog by Barbara Thomas, who I am lucky to know because about 22 years ago we started to work together as doctor and patient. Barbara is a brilliant and creative artist,...
View Articleskinny crazy small
I have a young friend who is using theater for raising public awareness. Actress and playwright Sylvie Mae Baldwin announces the world premier of her original one-woman play skinny crazy small. And I...
View ArticleMore about skinny crazy small
Only a couple more weeks to donate to Sylvie Mae Baldwin’s skinny crazy small. Go here ! And now more about the playwright and actress, in her words: From my eleventh birthday until the year I turned...
View Articletwo stem cell and bone marrow registration drive possibilities: please share
Please share these dates: 6/28 and 7/12 when folks 18-44 can register to register to be stem cell or bone marrow donors if a match is found. The registry needs you! Those 45-60 can register on line....
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