Home Feature
-
Publishing My First Book: 20 Unexpected Things
Who knew that writing a book would look like this? Recently a friend challenged me to make a list of some of the remarkable things that came out of...
Read more » -
Living A Year As If It Were My Last
“Statistically my time was up at least a year ago. But I’m still here,” wrote my childhood friend Marisa at the top of her Facebook note “25 Random Things...
Read more » -
Dispatches from the Road: A Travelog of True Stories
Two decades ago, an encounter with a now-famous global trailblazer helped point me on a path of international travel from which I’ve never looked back...
Read more » -
A Personal Farewell to Shep Nuland, the Man Who Taught Us “How We Die”
Sherwin Nuland was known affectionately as Shep by my family. He and my father were young roommates – physicians-in-training in London in the late 1950s.
Read more » -
The Swastika in Our Neighborhood
While walking with my 8-year-old son near our home in Manhattan, he spotted a purple swastika scrawled across a billboard advertisement. As I took in the complexities of the...
Read more »