Sometimes, I feel totally, utterly trapped. I want to create something. Almost anything. Write an article, paint a painting, link chains or ropes or words or wires. Everywhere I turn, someone has been there before me. It’s already been done, and surely done better. I want to scream! But what…

Watching me struggle Her lesson seemed to be About watercolor waves with crests of ink When you make a mistake You can try to make it right But the more you work it, the worse it gets Through my mind flashed Mistake after mistake The frantic urge to go back…

Is Your Relationship Bond Ionic? Covalent? Weak or Strong? Before I was a therapist, or even a physician, I was a biology major. And while I appreciate the fabulous jokes out there about how studying the Krebs cycle has no utility in the day-to-day practice of medicine, I continuously refer…

And what this exvangelical Western-trained physician learned along the way. I grew up in a rigidly fundamentalist Christian family. My siblings and I were homeschooled because my parents were concerned that The World™️ was going to infect us with scary things like liberalism and sex, so they felt obligated to…

The tension between planning and doing. In one of the opening scenes from The Rise of Skywalker, the 9th and final episode of Star Wars, the protagonist Rey is seen in what appears to be a peaceful meditative state (ok, she’s also levitating off the ground surrounded by swirling rocks)…

On caffeine, alcohol, calories, workouts, and how small shifts, one way or the other, lead to more of the same. Allow me to start this story with the opposite of inspiration. I’ve been on a health kick for the last few months, gradually building momentum- more on that below. Yesterday…

If I compose an article in the forest and no one reads it, does it still make a sound? What if a plant blooms the most beautiful, the most fragrant flower that has ever blossomed, but no one ever smells it, no one ever sees it- was it all a…