SPOTLIGHT -
March 22nd 2024
"The buttonholes, the sizing, the facing, the characters. Printed in black on neckband and tail. The shape, the label, the labor, the color, the shade. The shirt."
March 20th 2024
"...seeking and longing for the garden of cherry blossoms..."
March 19th 2024
A psychiatrist reflects on the importance of time... and living in the moment.
March 15th 2024
"We were three men alone in a ward room built for fifty, dust film on the floor..."
March 13th 2024
"I can smell the aroma of spring tulips filling the air-spreading peace and good cheer..."
Blue Fortitude
A psychiatrist reflects on blue fortitude as he visits the Columbine Memorial.
"Sleight of Hand"
"Oh for a stronger magic, that I could wave my arms and reach deep inside my white coat pocket, the mass vanished..."
We Lived Happily During the War
"And when they bombed other people’s houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough..."
Used Book
"What luck—an open bookstore up ahead..."
PTSD
"For months she has dreamed in red..."
The “Change” in Climate Change
"Tornado or torbellino or something else, I ask her about the valley’s strange wind. And she laughs, says that she was calling to ask me the same thing."
How to Triumph Like a Girl
"As if this big dangerous animal is also a part of me, that somewhere inside the delicate skin of my body, there pumps an 8-pound female horse heart, giant with power, heavy with blood."
"PTSD"
"Eyes locked on the flat-lined monitor, she hears the last drop gurgle, the team quiet and calm in a lake of blood."
Undeniable
A psychiatrist has an undeniable response to the Jacksonville shooting.
A Small Needful Fact
"...he put gently into the earth some plants which, most likely, some of them, in all likelihood, continue to grow..."
The Poetic Body
The body keeps the score...
Poetic Reflections Yield Lessons Learned
"Be bold, choose joy, and live authentically."
Creativity Outlets: The Clinician’s Battery for Recharging
The ambiguity of psychiatry naturally lends itself to a story, and creativity is all about telling a story.
Mother, Summer, I
"Too often summer days appear, Emblems of perfect happiness, I can't confront..."
Poetry and Me
This Special Report invites readers to journey with individuals who use their artistic side to reflect on their experiences as healers and the healed.
What I Love
"...and remember the white and bloodless world I knew before I fell in love."
I Remember
"By the first of August, the invisible beetles began to snore and the grass was as tough as hemp and was no color..."
"What I Love"
"...everything known and unknown for longer than I have searched or breathed, the infinity of my ignorance."
Patty’s Charcoal Drive-In
"The dark pours down, sticky as Coke, but the light from the kitchen gleams like a beacon."
Girdle
"So many things look absurd from a distance that people still take seriously..."
What a Dying Woman Saw
T.S.A.
"At O'Hare, at Atlanta, at Dallas/Fort Worth, it happens every trip, at LaGuardia, Logan, and Washington Dulles, the customary strip..."
“What a Dying Woman Saw”
"She was clear-eyed and dying when I knew her, soft breaths feathering from her chest like distant smoke..."
Ode to the 4th
A psychiatrist reflects on the Fourth of July in light of current events....
Psychiatric Reflections on the Court's Decisions
A psychiatrist shares further reflections on the most recent Court decisions...
Unbecoming
A psychiatrist finds the recent Supreme Court decision unbecoming...
My Heart Leaps Up
"The Child is father of the Man..."
Mourning
A psychiatrist mourns as he reflects on the Supreme Court decision....
Border Boy
"It is not a place out there but a place in here. I catch on its barbed wire in both places."
Tragedy Times Two
A psychiatrist reflects on the 2 recent tragedies at sea...