author of literary fiction with a southern drawl
This is another memory from my time in pediatric cardiology, and another favorite. You never know who is going to stand up when you go to the waiting room and call a patient’s name. In pediatrics, it’s not only the patient you get to meet, but also their families. This time, when I called the [...]
Last October, my buddy Mary Beth, a nurse I'd worked with at Vandy, the pups, and I took a trip to Pensacola, Florida. It was a spur of the moment trip – she called on a Tuesday and said, “I’ve got a long weekend coming up, want to go to the beach?” “Uh, YES.” I [...]
Happy Wandering Wednesday!
One day last week after a sunrise walk, the pups and I ran into a pair of identical twin sisters at the dunes. They were in their late sixties or maybe mid-seventies - hard to tell because they were wearing identical dark sunglasses and both had a beautiful head of dyed red hair - not [...]
I am very lucky to have the kind of face, or maybe it’s the vibe I give off – or maybe, more than likely, it’s the fact that I am a perpetual eavesdropper who doesn’t even try to hide it. Whatever the case may be, total strangers share some really personal and powerful stuff with [...]
If you read the previous blog, The Magic of New Orleans, then some of these names will look familiar. https://youtu.be/DB0mUYpDeZg
Three years ago, my cousin Glynda, asked if I wanted to go to New Orleans for Halloween with her and her husband Mike. Heck yeah, I wanted to go. Under normal circumstances my answer would have been yes, but especially three years ago, Glynda had been diagnosed with cancer a few months earlier and I’d [...]