SPOTLIGHT -
May 3rd 2024
“The fundamental act of medical care is assumption of responsibility.”
April 26th 2024
"Otherwise it's spring, and everything looks frail; the sky is baby blue, and the just-unfurling leaves are full of infant chlorophyll, the very tint of inexperience."
April 22nd 2024
"I pulled my scuffle hoe hard through the clay’s crust and heard the blade scrape metal and earth."
April 19th 2024
"And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold, And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold."
April 12th 2024
"I shall forget civilization, I shall forget color, caste, I shall move in a fantastic world of raceless men and women..."
Positively Haiku: Illustrated Affirmations in 17 Syllables
This book offers positivity via a unique form of poetry.
Land Ho
"I know I have the blood of survivors coursing through my veins; I know the lament of our loss must warm us again and again down in the belly of the whale..."
Lane Closure
A psychiatrist reflects on the latest shootings.
Evening Hawk
"His wing Scythes down another day, his motion Is that of the honed steel-edge, we hear The crashless fall of stalks of Time."
Sleight of Hand
"Oh for a stronger magic, that I could wave my arms and reach deep inside my white coat pocket..."
Kansas, 4AM
"The sounds of the world at this late hour sadden you, but then enters the rain, hastening down, the rain that wants to touch everything and almost does."
I Sit and Sew
"My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams..."
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..."