Let’s start with the definition I received from the first practitioner of functional medicine I’ve met through my monthly zooms on the subject of wide-ranging approaches to health. Dr.Traci Potterf, PhD, a Medical Anthropologist, defines how she and other practitioners of functional medicine consider health and wellness. They avoid what much of traditional medicine does, …
As I have said before, writing a medical thriller not only took me into whole new worlds of information and knowledge, specifically medical pathology and more surprisingly, quantum physics, it has now taken me into a whole new realm of communication. I think of myself as a somewhat nerdy introspective type, albeit with a social …
I’ve written about the bitter-sweetness of the holidays—what was, what is no more. Yet, life does move on whether we like it or not. My husband and I have moved into an unexpected time of life. Of course we knew we’d age with the passing years. But of course, we had no real understanding of …
Happy Holidays? Despite the excitement of a successful book launch in late September, the holidays are a time of ambivalence. I know I’m not alone on this score by a long shot. Partly it’s built-up expectations. The pictures you see, the sentiments you hear, the pressure to gather ’round a popping fire with smiling family …
Is anyone out there satisfied with our medical systems in the United States? As I’ve been on a podcast, zoom, and interviewing extravaganza since the release of my medical thriller, The Human Trial, in September, I’ve had reason to ask this question repeatedly. And I have yet to have one person say unequivocally ‘Yes!’ And …
It’s helpful to encourage myself with an inspiration I share not just with fellow writers and readers, but with everyone who from time-to-time needs reminding that we are all truly capable of great, bridging and unifying, and enduring things. I quote Carl Sagan: “What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made …
A review of Life of Pi I simply had to write and share Awe. Amazement. Jaw-dropping insight. Soul-jolting inspiration. Glimpses of God. This is not hyperbole. Life of Pi, both movie and novel, brought me to my writer’s knees, humbling me is too kind, humiliating me as a novelist myself, more like it. But a month since reading …
I was going to write, actually I did write, a blog about the joys of getting back to what drives me: writing. But the blog I wrote initially had to be tossed. It sounded so saccharine after the full reality of The Sausage Maker’s Daughters caught up with me. You see, I spent much of last week …
A few Sundays ago, “60 Minutes” had an interesting segment on the former CFO of now-defunct Lehman Brothers, Erin Callan, a pretty 47-year-old who took issue with the new COO of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg. The latter attests that women haven’t broken the glass ceiling in number because women don’t “lean in,” her parlance for “go for …
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