Last summer, I noticed a curious news item: “At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean … researchers have found lines of holes on the ocean...

Revisiting an earlier post's theme of the joy and meaning we find in 'acquaintance friendships,' or what Ralph Waldo Emerson called "a...

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-17-sp-experiential-learning-leadership/id1613064484?i=1000605108627 Got a half-hour to listen to...

Grateful today, to be past the N-month, when our bits of evening daylight collapse into late-afternoon sunset. My mood collapses along...

On a connecting flight to Vallarta in Mexico, late-October, the pilot announced “bumpy patches” ahead. My row-mate in the middle seat...

Only a couple of weeks ago, my 2-year-old neighbor started pointing while running around my backyard. “What’s that? What’s that?” Now...

Finding the words to finalize part 3 of a multi-post blog (“Touch, Thrum, Sweat”) I began in January? It’s been a challenge. I am not...

My first airplane trips by myself, at age 10, took me from Chicago to Canada and back. Toronto. Hamilton, to be specific, where my...

https://soundcloud.com/user-499494424/mary-donovan-assistant-dean-georgetown-university-school-of-medicine-in-washington-dc To our class...

So we walked. An hour in, Patrick veered toward a store-front, to avoid colliding with an older woman dressed in black. She plunged...

How to explain our relationship? Is it her tone, or her occasional dementia, that challenges me? Sometimes she can’t find a song she...

23 years ago, I got a phone call from an infectious-disease doctor, Captain Rich Hawkins, US Navy. "I got your name from Graceanne at...

Not to be Captain Obvious here, but I think my classmates can tell I’m older than they are. Old enough to be their mother. Older than...

Any dog will tell you: seeing eyes are not the most critical of sensory input, even if dog-eyes do the seeing for some humans. The nose,...

As I manage to get older, I’ve been trying to live more like a dog. Dogs have it down, the whole living-in-a-body thing. As a human...

"The Christmas tree I think got sucked up with the presents," the girl said, in an NPR interview.[1] “Sucked up.” From her living-room,...

Oh, did I feel sorry for myself that day. An ocean away from closest kin. My first Thanksgiving away. And by choice. A 1980s...

What a joy to speak with Dr. Moyez Jiwa, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Health Design and head of health innovation at the Melbourne...

Every year around this time, a classic meme pops up: a nature pic with superimposed quote (by “Unknown”), “The trees are about to show...

Time. Oh. A slippery one, that. Bendy and elusive. Full of tricks, even. Have you ever tripped on a tree root or rock that’s hiding...