On September 4th, 1967, with blistering dignity, 15-year old Elizabeth Eckford, the first Black student to integrate a Southern high schoo...

 

  The Hero M.D.  and I received the very best early Christmas present yesterday. The post-op pathology report from my surgery in November w...

Someone missed me, clearly. Not just tonight, but during this whole process, which has often separated, for hours, a senior Labrador who can...

This afternoon in Aurora, CO, the amended autopsy report on the death of Elijah McClain was released. The 23-year old Black man was injected...

  I woke up this morning inexplicably missing my parents. I don't dwell in the past, as a rule, but this journey upon which I've bee...

Chemo session #7 (aka "the one officially past the halfway mark when it's done") got underway a half-hour ago, about three hou...

"Pink is the navy blue of India," as Diana Vreeland famously pronounced in 1956 to the legendary fashion photographer Norman Parki...

  Chemo session #5. Listening to Sinéad O'Connor with my headphones. Feeling strong in this beautiful place full of such good, good peop...

  Chemo round #4 was a bit slow getting started today, due to a backlog from the long weekend, apparently. It didn't matter, I got in, a...

  Chemo round #3—maybe halfway done? We were a little late getting started today, but Princess Margaret isn't the worst place to hang ou...

Chemo round #2. There was a curtain on my cubicle today, and I asked that it be drawn, for privacy and also to avoid the distraction of seei...

Two-year old Aiden McCarthy was found wandering down the street alone in the aftermath of the Highland Park massacre on the 4th of July. Onl...

I woke up this morning to a young man in our cherry tree, picking the cherries. I have no idea how young he was (at my age, almost everyone ...