This is the last in the series about my new Give a Duck Community. I see online spaces as a puzzle. No one site can give me everything I...

…sometimes simplicity is the most powerful spiritual stimulation. - Nicholas J Petrelli, M.D. On the surface, The Proximity of Mortality,...

The second in a series Last month I wrote about my growing discomfort with Twitter that ended with the assertion: There’s got to be a...

Health care's raison d'être is to care for patients. If patients and caregivers aren't an organization's #1 stakeholder - the first...

This essay is the first of a series The other day I posted this picture of me wearing an N95 mask on Twitter. I have a big-ish following...

(Lorraine) helped her staff address their challenges, and recognize their joys, in taking care of patients and their families...and the...

There is a genre called solarpunk that is a creative way of describing a future state of the world where humanity has succeeded in...

How can we relate to stories that threaten our own? Some of us go towards the threat. We search and question and dig. Some of us...

Recently I was asked how our family deals with the heavy weight of advocacy work. I rabble-rouse in health care for a living and my...

I took a professional communications certificate program a few years ago. The instructors had us take a personality test during the...

It is Cinco de Mayo, so I stopped at the Mexican grocer by the lake with all the ducks. A lady in the shop was wearing her mask under her...

I’ve been musing on the many parallels between the government’s response to COVID and my own cancer experience. I was diagnosed and...

My son Aaron created this video to be included in a subscription package for the Gathering of Kindness in Australia. (Interested in a...

My professional has always been driven by my personal. I wear one hat and it is me. I'm fortunate to work in an area that I feel...

When my youngest was in grade one, he spent a lot of time in the principal's office. I remember the shame of being called to pick him...

I woke up to the outrage that comes with inequity when my youngest son was born with Down syndrome almost two decades ago. I’ve always...

There’s been so much trust broken since the pandemic began. Our family no longer trusts that school environments will keep my son safe,...

Here is a Q + A with author Sue Robins about her newest book, Ducks in a Row: Health Care Reimagined, which is now available on Amazon....

In the depths of our current health care disaster, the million-dollar question is how do we change the system? The answer? Unless you...

I am at my daughter’s house, looking after her while she cares for her new baby. I literally can’t leave the house, because of...