When I was about 13 years old, a doctor, while filling out my chart, asked me if I knew of any history of breast cancer in my family. “No, I […]

There’s absolutely nothing new about the people I work with thinking I’m weird. This is, after all, the place where, mid-conversation with someone, I reached into my trashcan, pulled out […]

I’m fairly convinced at this point that my sister-in-law Vikki is made of some sort of advanced strain of DNA. Not that she’s completely superhuman — she gets sick and […]

When you wonderful people out there sit down to read this, I will be likely be drinking my first cup of coffee in my new place. Which is to say, […]

Since about birth, I’ve made basically the same New Year’s resolution: Lose weight. Clearly, this does not make me at all unique, given that it seems about half the population […]

When you follow as many animal rescue groups as I do on social media, you become pretty accustomed to seeing horrible things. On the morning I write this, my first […]