Dear Young Friends,

I’ve been thinking a lot over these last few weeks, as most of us have, about the goings on in Washington. I keep thinking about the deep division among us and the vitriol spewing in every direction. Are there any lessons to be learned here? I’m not sure, but below are some thoughts I’m sharing […]

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Today, I am ____________ .

20 November, 2014 I am forty-five years old today. I am a gray-headed, spectacle-wearing, grocery-getter driving wife of one, mother or bonus mom to five, pediatrician, Haiti-loving middle aged woman. When, exactly, did this happen? I could swear just last week I was dancing at the Music Farm on Meeting Street, or studying on Tradd […]

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