Category: Personal Essays
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He wrote it down.
Originally posted on In Others' Words…: Our intention was to dance on his grave. My beautiful cousin, who I’d not seen in 35 years, and I set out to dance on our grandfather’s grave. Our first dilemma was, of course, song choice. You have to have the right song. We bandied a few song titles…
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If I Had a Dollar (Why I Am a Feminist)
Originally posted on girl in the hat: image courtesy Devil Doll Because my mother was a painter and a beauty when artists had patrons and a woman like that needed a man to take care of her, so she married a money man. Because my mother’s mother was a beauty and her mother was, too,…
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Palliative Care and the Lost Art of Communication
Originally posted on markmdmph: The following is Part 2 in a series about end-of-life care. For Part 1, see here. This article addresses my own experience on a Palliative Medicine elective in my fourth year of medical school. Despite the growing number of U.S. hospitals with Palliative Care teams, there remains a real lack of…
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Are you Uncle William? Help me find him!
I received this letter in a package my mom sent me for Christmas. It was tucked inside a blank business envelope amidst the packing peanuts. For several minutes, I wracked my brain trying to figure out why my mom had sent me this letter and who the hell is Uncle William? My mom has a…
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47 Resolutions Better than “Lose Weight” or “Get Healthy”
If your resolution is to “lose weight” or “get healthy,” let me break the suspense for you – you will fail. Setting our intentions is half the battle of achieving our intentions (obviously, I know). But hold up, before you go wasting your time with blasé intentions, take time to really think about what you…
Trynia Kaufman 