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Thanksgiving – Off the Beaten Path
So. Family and Friends. Let’s just get that one out of the way right off the bat. Great. Here’s a list of other stuff I’m thankful for in no particular order: 1) curiosity 2) pain sensation 3) music 4) butter … Continue reading
My Tiny Revolution
This past week has been – uh – interesting. I’m not sleeping particularly well and am nearing the point where I’ll need to withdraw completely from all sources of media. I decided to take some Tiny Steps in a Tiny … Continue reading
Goodnight Doom
In the great oval room There is a telephone With the nuclear neumes And a dead dream of – She-POTUS slaying the Agent of Doom The BA from Wellesley and Yale JD Just couldn’t win over misogyny And a … Continue reading
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Stuff You Say If You’re Lynne Rossetto Kasper
Dear Ms. Kasper: Rick Nelson, our local food writer for the Star Tribune, wrote a lovely article about YOU in the Taste section, October 27, 2016. An article titled “The Soup You’ll Make All Winter” certainly captures attention. Let me … Continue reading
I Fought the Mall and the Mall Won
Let me make my position on the Mall of America patently clear: I Hate It. Yesterday, the Big E and his friend, who coincidentally shares the same name, dragged me to the Mall. Their deep research into the topic had … Continue reading
Unapologetically Smart
I am a woman. I am smart. I’m using “smart” in the standard academic sense of the word, not to minimize other forms of intelligence (artistic, emotional, spatial-relational, etc.), but to limit the scope of this discussion. Perhaps I made … Continue reading
Minnesota Reportable Communicable Disease – the stuff we got in 2015
I did not watch the presidential debate last week. Wild horses couldn’t drag me away from my most favorite publication from the Minnesota Department of Health: The Annual Summary of Communicable Diseases Reported to the Minnesota Department of Health, 2015. … Continue reading
Jacob Have We Loved
Dear Jacob: They found your remains last week, buried just off a country road, scarcely thirty miles from your home. That tiny remnant of hope, a single flickering candle, is now and forever extinguished. You are dead. The man who … Continue reading
The Beauty of a Handwritten Note
“I’m kind of old-school,” Dr. Seshat admits. She’s a millennial doc, finishing her Internal Medicine residency around the year 2000. Her practice straddles the old and the new. During her training, Seshat documented with a pen in a paper chart. … Continue reading
Vishnu, Protector of Humanity
“Some days I feel like I have the best job in the world.” Dr. Vishnu works at an FQHC-designated clinic in California. She calls me between the demands of work and parenting. “We are invited into people’s intimate lives and … Continue reading