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This Blog Still Exists

In a 1984 Paris Review interview with the writer James Baldwin, he was asked whether he found it easier or more difficult to write out of anguish, specifically his utter despair after the death of Martin Luther King Jr.  Baldwin replied, “No one works better out of anguish at all; that’s an incredible literary conceit. […]

The Samsara of Healthcare

I was scanning through some old posts from a few years ago and noticed one that is particularly relevant — STILL — to today. It has to do with government and entitlements and the ongoing threat we face from Republican economic policies and a culture that is all too willing to sacrifice the vulnerable while […]

The United States Medical System, Part Two in a Series Through Photos

23 years, beginning in infancy, four different benzos (Nitrazepam, Ativan, Klonopin and Clobazam), zero seizure control, high dependency, still being prescribed to babies and young children despite little to no evidence of efficacy THE REAL TIGER MOTHERS take charge The Price of Addiction (deductible finally met in November because of MRI, etc., catalogued in The […]

This is the place where poetry, politics, caregiving, disability and the ocean intersect with the body. That body is mine and yours.

A podcast about The Grit and Grace of Caregiving, hosted by me and Jason Lehmbeck.