I’ve always secretly envied families who served as hosts for AFS, the American Field Service, which promotes cultural exchange by bringing high school students from foreign countries here for a year, and by sending our own students around the world. As a doctor-mom busy with the balancing act of raising her own three children while… Continue reading An American Safari
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A True Story
As a child, I dreamed of going to Africa some day on safari. Late at night I would drift to sleep hearing the imagined trumpeting of a bull elephant, and seeing visions of elegant giraffes moving like tall masted ships through the grasslands of the Serengeti behind my closed eyes. I read voraciously—first children’s books… Continue reading A True Story
Happy Place
“Think of a place that’s really perfect. Your own happy place. Go there, and all your anger will just disappear. Then putt.” Happy Gilmore, 1996 I don’t know if I have ever heard my radiation therapists say this to a patient, anxious on the treatment table, “Go to your happy place.” I think I may… Continue reading Happy Place