Essays

God’s Waiting Room

October 9, 2017 Scene: The lights come up revealing a sparsely furnished inner office separated from a larger waiting room outside, such as you might find in any medical clinic or law office. A quiet tap on the door. The bearded man looks up from his desk, peering...

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My Heart’s Lessons

“There is nothing wrong with your [my] heart.” After some vague but scary symptoms set off two months of increasingly invasive tests that culminated in a cardiac catheterization procedure on the morning of New Year’s Eve, hearing that sentence was welcome news. I took...

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Continuity

“As long as there’s one person on earth who remembers you, it isn’t over” —Oscar Hammerstein In the first months my daughter was home I would look into her face and marvel, wondering at how familiar the look she gave me was. From where did I know...

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