When I was in high school, a boy I had dated for a long time and I broke up, the way that high school relationships end. He decided to tell people we had sex, which we had not. A mutual friend told me what she had heard, and I responded that was not what happened. I remember vividly, as though ...

One day, just before this year's Fourth of July, I spent an hour searching through old posts in the Facebook group for my Libby (Montana) High School class of 1978. As the 250th anniversary of our country was approaching, I was feeling some nostalgia for the proud and happy celebrations of ...

Some of our most challenging, lifelong learning happens when we’re long into life. The things we learn as we grow older are sometimes more difficult to accept than the things we learn as we gallop through the middle years of life, dragging our kids through their growing up years, trying to ...

Twenty-five years ago, many Americans woke up on September 12 to a country that felt different. The shock and grief were overwhelming, but so was the way people responded to one another. Strangers helped strangers, communities rallied around those who were hurting, and displays of American ...

Patients aren't waiting for permission anymore. Medicine's job is to make sure they don't get hurt along the way.  Your patient already Googled it  Here's a conversation I have more and more. Someone tells me they've been exhausted for months. Before I can ask a single question, they tell ...

Parkinson’s disease changed my life in 2008. I was 33 years old when I was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson’s disease. At the time, my wife and I had four young children. Our youngest was just three months old. I never imagined that a disease normally associated with much older people ...