Roasted Root Vegetables with Tamari for the Mike Wizowski of Clinical Skills

Having nibbled my own lips into two swollen, confluent canker sores, while over-caffeinating to the extreme of bilateral pseudo-DVT, Diet Coke-claudication of my calves—both symptoms pathognomonic for my stress response to Boards season—I am now finished being standardly tested in medical school. This last exam was my favorite because it thrust me into a perfect […]

Raspberry Orange Cookies and Dried Flowers

Some dried purple flowers fell into the shower drain from my head this evening. It occurred to me they could have been stuck in there for some time, and unbeknownst to me, took a quiet ride through my daily life like little stowaways buried under red curls. Which tree I brushed to get them in […]