On the evening of January 31, 2019, I sat in a third floor classroom of Loft Literary in Minneapolis and…
Two Bedsides
March 4, 2006 The phone rang at our Texas home on Saturday afternoon. It was the nursing home Dad had…
The Making of Margaret Hyde
My forebears gaze at me, neatly arrayed in the sepia tones of 1936. In the center sits the patriarch, my…
My Year in Reading (2018 Edition)
It could be seen as a sad commentary on my life that my last post on this blog was over…
Favorite Books! (2017 Edition)
We’re getting close to the end of the year, so it’s time to consider my favorite reads of 2017. In…
Contraception, Abortion, and the Rhymes of History
On October 6, the Trump administration rolled back a key facet of the Affordable Care Act that required employers to…
Diving Down the Rabbit Hole
When Alice went down the rabbit hole, she found a wonderland of bizarre characters and strange goings-on she had never…
Stigma and the (un)deserving sick
I had lung cancer. And every time I talk about my cancer, I find myself explaining that the carcinoid cancer…
Thirty Five Years of Conferences
In May of 1982, I was a twenty-three year old master’s student attending my first academic conference. Held at the…
The Japanese Surrender – In Lincoln, Nebraska
8:00 p.m. Thursday, August 13, 1945. Lincoln, Nebraska. Marj took advantage of the brief quiet from the teletype machines and…
