When you grow up medically fragile, mortality is always on the forefront of your mind. When you grow up as one of a handful of minorities and persons with a disability in an extremely homogenous…
When you grow up medically fragile, mortality is always on the forefront of your mind. When you grow up as one of a handful of minorities and persons with a disability in an extremely homogenous…
“I’m too young for this.” “What does this mean for my future?” “Am I going to age faster than everyone else?” These are questions I asked myself and my doctors over and over again when…
It’s a beautiful, sunny day in mid-July, my 5 y/o daughter and I are ankle deep in Lake Chautauqua and a very obviously dead fish has washed up on the shore about 10 feet away….
The reality of our current existence is that living online is literally a matter of life and death. Doing things virtually means lowering the risk of spreading the deadly coronavirus. In Judaism, pikuach nefesh, saving…
On the evening that Disney Plus released Clouds – a new movie from the director of Five Feet Apart – I grabbed a box of tissues and braced myself for what I knew would be…
“Hi, my name is Alejandra and I’m calling from the Florida Department of Health. Have you been given the results from your COVID-19 test?” This line was ingrained in my head. I spoke it hundreds…