SPOTLIGHT -
March 18th 2025
"I guessed heart failure. The answer was pneumonia."
February 27th 2025
"Connect me to all children, Under undue distress all ‘round the world, Shaping the future of our warring lands..."
February 13th 2025
"It is the winter of chest pain and snow, all the drunks smashed through the ER doors..."
February 5th 2025
Explore the theme of mortality and the fleeting nature of time in a poem inspired by Stoic philosophy and personal reflection.
January 16th 2025
"I begin by remembering my hours as a patient..."
Looking at Photos
"...My mother like a distantly spilled perfume."
Doctoring
Reflections on National Doctor Day.
Communion
"I am her book of poems and it is I."
Pandemic Resilience? Remnants
“…we need a break.”
Embracing Hope
One medical student shares how writing poetry can help us embrace our creativity and cope with life’s challenges.
The Snow Is Deep on the Ground
"Always the light falls. Softly down on the hair of my belovèd."
Ubuntu and Shalom: An Octogenarian, Psychiatrist Looks Back, and Forward
“…Have We really Changed after Lo, these Many Years?”
Sunset Reflections
Being grateful and enjoying one's surroundings can go a long way after a long, hard day.
While Listening to Annie Lamott Give Tim Ferriss Her Advice for Writers
“Step 1: put your butt in a chair for 45 minutes every day and get down a shitty draft.”
"Dress Rehearsal"
Here's a thank you note to all the musicians.
A Psychiatrist's Ode to Women's History Month
Musings on Women's History Month...
To See You Go
“I saw your rise, and missed your fall. I couldn’t have caught you if I tried…”
Free, Free, Free
"Pain can't touch me no more, For I am free, I am free, I am free..."
Our Lady of Tenacious Hope
During war and winter, can hope shine through?
Dehumanization
A psychiatrist's thoughts and reflections after the week's news.
Memorial Hoops
"But Who am I kidding? The weekend was about Basketball."
Adrift in Winter
"All anyone wants to know is when spring will get here..."
Ode to Black Mental Health
Using words and music to help heal...
Dress Rehearsal
"...they’ve returned like songbirds, exhausted from flight but wild to swagger the songs they carry..."
Grief After Suicide
An adolescent psychiatric RN shares “Heavy Damage,” a poem about managing grief after losing a loved one to suicide.
Poetry, Psychiatry, and the Meaning of Love
Love in a Time of Climate Change
"...so close that your emissions of carbon are mine, so close your sea rises with my heat.”
A Psychiatrist May Have Made Musical History
Frank Clark, MD, may have made history this weekend with an epic musical and poetry performance.
Ataraxia
Reflecting on the alarming rates of suicide among Black individuals.
"Tender Fences"
"...barriers that create space for healing placed close enough to hear everyone’s cries of longing and love..."
Suicide Is Real
It's beyond time to sound the alarm...
Kindness
"Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things..."
Michiko Dead
"He manages like somebody carrying a box that is too heavy, first with his arms underneath..."
Sunset on the Pacific
The poetic and artistic reflections from 2 psychiatrists serve as a good reminder to us all.
Tender Fences
