• Ending Suffering, Part 2: Conscious Suffering

    During the holidays my wife received word that a favorite cousin had been hospitalized with advanced brain cancer. He is young, handsome, charismatic, a business owner, a newly minted husband and father of a…

    January 15, 2010
  • Ending Suffering – When Enough is Enough: Part 1

    His name is Gene Sprague. He paces the Golden Gate’s walkway at its highest point, occasionally stopping to gaze down at the water more than 200 feet below. Immersed in their picture-taking, nearby tourists…

    December 16, 2009
  • Don’t Take My Word for It

    Recently I stumbled across the following. Take a look and consider its implications not just for your medical treatment, but for all aspects of your life. One study found that when confronted with a…

    November 13, 2009
  • Saying No to the Role of a Lifetime

    Imagine that you are an actor and the director calls with a new assignment. It goes something like this: “We’re sending you into a new theatre for the role of a lifetime.” So far,…

    November 7, 2009
  • In Salute of a Stepmother’s Love

    Two pregnant women, close friends, are overjoyed to learn they will be delivering their babies on the same day at the same hospital. Taking this as a sign, they determine that the babies –…

    November 3, 2009