I slide into the driver’s seat of my car as the CVS Pharmacy bag in my arms, piled high with medications, crunches loudly against the steering wheel. I hoist an overstuffed Target shopping bag…
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Dear Doctor, I am writing to you today, at 6 AM in the morning, because yesterday was hard, and I am starting my day feeling both depleted and discouraged. For the record, I do…
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Click here to view the recording of our research group’s virtual art gallery event (90 minute webinar.) On June 20, 2020 you are invited to a personal virtual art exhibition event created by six…
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Years ago when I was getting my degree, I met the hospice social worker outside the home of her first patient of the morning— I was to shadow her throughout her work day. As…
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Modern Motherhood Stories of KindnessA Note to the Chick-Fil-A Team Member Who Asked Me, “Is She Going to Get Better?”
To the Chick-Fil-A Team Member who asked me, “Is she going to get better?” I am sure you don’t remember me, as it has been almost a full year since I pulled up…
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Hello Friends, Many of you are familiar with Grace and Nora’s dance duet – “Be Still” from 2017. Nora and Grace continue to dance together, once a week, in an inclusive dance class (taught…
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The red weather-torn letters read, “SAVE OUR OAK.” They peel away from a yellow poster that’s topped with a large, bright, yellow ribbon. The sign hangs across a chain link rent-a-fence. My neighborhood is…
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I’ve walked into harder times, and I’ve walked out the other side It seems like you end up getting what you need Yeah, looking down from 30,000 feet, life’s been good to me —Lyrics…
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I dim the lights in the bathroom as the faucet roars and fills the bathtub with cold water. I plug the drain before I unwrap a fringe scarf from my neck and pull my…
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Modern Motherhood Stories of KindnessAnd Then, My Entire Family Bought Roller Skates: A Thank You Note
The crickets belong in the old stone wall and the bees belong in the clover, just as winter belongs in its place after fall, before the new year starts over. —You Belong Here, written…
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A Note to Nora’s Recess Buddies: I am told by Nora’s nurses, and Mrs. Jackson, that at the start of the school year, a small group of students met with Nora, during recess, to…
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“What is your favorite discovery?’ asked the boy. ‘That I am enough as I am,’ said The Horse” — Charlie Mackesy This essay captures a conversation I had with a psychiatrist the month I…