A Love Letter To Raffi

Dear Raffi, On October 17, 2020, while standing alone outside of the Ryan Veterinary Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania, I received the news that our time together would be unexpectedly cut short. The diagnosis was metastasized oral melanoma and they gave you...

June 2020: This Moment

What do I do in this moment? What do I say in this moment? How can I best engage in this moment? How should I be in this moment? Who am I in this moment? We all know what is transpiring in our country and in our world. After spending more than eleven weeks in...

April 2020: Alone Together

We are just a few weeks in and we are all settled into our new (temporary) reality. While the daily routine looks different for everyone, there are common threads in this human experience. Those of us who are not on the front lines of the health care crisis or the...

What If…

There is so much fear, and perhaps rightfully so, about COVID-19. And, what if… If we subscribe to the philosophy that life is always working out for us, that there is an intelligence far greater than humans at work… That all is interconnected. What if… the virus is...