The Heart Within
“At one point I had wires looped three times through your heart,” said interventional cardiologist Dr. Pratik Sandesara, to my husband the next day. I have secretly dubbed this man ‘Ariadne,’ the archetypal weaver from Greek mythology. The maze is the cardiovascular system. The Minotaur was the complete block in the artery. Theseus is the the…
Show Your Devotion with Sparkle
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Truth, Beauty, and Tornadoes in the Year of the Rabbit
Two weeks in a row I spent Atlanta’s tornado watches in the cardiac care waiting room at Emory Midtown Hospital. There’s nothing quite so destabilizing as waiting for test results, while watching the sky turn dark and the fog get so bad I couldn’t see the building across the street, and wondering if my house…
Full Metal Garden Gnome
I’d love to tell you that I spent my holiday time off recharging and rejuvenating, but the truth is that I nearly experienced death by lilies. I had no idea how toxic their pollen can be until day 5 of the presence of a beautiful flower arrangement we had on our dining room table, when…
The Highly Sensitive House Pet and Her Human
I was recently describing the personality of Lizzie, one of our Shelties, to a friend. “When it comes to herding her flock (us humans) or anything she wants to do, she’s fearless. If we threw her in the deep end, she’d undoubtedly swim. Chipmunks on the deck flee, and birds at the feeder take flight…