Part of my job in medical education is to orient students for ‘experiential’ exams. Each student will soon talk to a real person --...

Sometimes I talk to the children I did not have. And sometimes I can hear them, too. It’s a bit mysterious. I have (alive) children to...

“We need Montaigne,” I’ve thought, all through this past year of pandemic isolation and losses of many kinds. Among other gifts, my hero...

[continuing, after part 1: https://www.marymuffindonovan.com/post/wages-my-first-job-part-1-of-2-2-20-21 ] (cont’d) First Paid Pursuits...