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...

On my most recent birthday, via Zoom, my family asked a bunch of questions (favorite vacation memory? if I could live anywhere in the...

Around election time in November, I signed up for a Saturday series of webinars on “Forbidden Conversations” (Death, Sex, Money) from the...

Every now and then, I move through a day with what I’d call a dream hangover. I wake from a dream whose meandering turns and visual...

Like me, you may have heard news lately about the human tendency toward numbness, as deaths of our fellow human-animals increase. As I...

On 3/13/20, in the wake of unnerving news-briefs, uncertainty and disbelief, my academic institution told us: “Take home what you think...

How agonizing, and rewarding, to read anything you wrote 10 years prior. Where’s that thick, red Sharpie, now? Even birthed from the...

On this holiday to honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, I’m trying to keep the Reverend’s long view in mind. A true visionary, he...

Last week, a mob incited by lies, paranoia and their own unhinged President breached security at the Capitol, we-the-people’s house, as...

October 2020 – (a note to clinical med-students) Students, it’s been a minute since we shared a ‘small-bite’ beyond a link to a podcast...