It looked like a flower a jewel a prism a kaleidoscope of pink and red and green a mustard yellow. So beautiful it brought tears to m...

I'm baking cakes again. I made cupcakes today, too. I've hatched a plan to make two specialty cakes a month and del...

In Ring Three of The Greatest Show on Earth: So, in keeping with the general zeitgeist, Sophie will be driving Uber from here on out. ...

October 5, 2017 MRI of the brain with anesthesia Cedars Sinai Medical Center Sophie, 22 year old woman refractory epilepsy patient ...

Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change Frida Kahlo Last week, I sat in Diane McDaniel 's b...

For how could one express in words those emotions of the body? Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse   I need the hive mind as coll...

I was in Spokane this past weekend, visiting with Henry for Family Weekend at his university. It was fall in Spokane, and the colors ...

Planetarium, Griffith Observatory Los Angeles This has been a difficult week, so after an unbloggable morning meeting and in lieu o...

This is a post about my son, Henry, with whom I am well pleased. Actually, this is a post about my son, Henry, for whom I am bursting ...

When the insurance company denies a claim for a drug that your daughter has been on for nine years (in its liquid form) and suggests (v...

So, I got a missive from Anthem Blue Shield last week that I opened with a sinking feeling. Those of you who know that despite living in...

10.  Practice corporeal politics. Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get out...

When I feed Sophie oatmeal, I put one hand on her forehead and with the other coax a spoonful into her mouth. Then I put a finger on her...

I had my toenails painted this afternoon despite the hurricanes whipping up over the Atlantic again, despite the persons displaced by th...