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  • It’s Your Birthday Alma

    Thirty-some years ago, my mother gifted me an author’s autobiography with the inscription: “To my author-daughter.” For the last three years, I’ve been plugging away at a book that pairs my medical anecdotes with her prayerful antidotes. And this year—on… Continue reading

    It’s Your Birthday Alma
  • Sister Sniffer

    Due to the Christmas Eve Concussion of ’12 , I deal with Dysosmia*. Ironically, due to my profession (or the concussion), I keep thinking it’s  dysnomia: the difficulty in recalling words from memory needed for expressive language. That first Christmas, I had… Continue reading

    Sister Sniffer