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Recently, I caught up with my good friend Karen whose younger son is headed to college next year. We have often compared notes about how...

First and foremost, an apology for my long silence. Second, a note explaining why, and why I am unlikely to be posting much, if at all,...

Last week, I sent out our annual Whitehurst family holiday e-blast. I’ve been doing this for several years now – my way of making holiday...

My dear friend Susan Spratt is a highly respected endocrinologist at Duke, but I think her true calling is celebrating the wonder in...

Almost three years ago, when I started thinking about the fact that my kids were leaving for college in less than a year, I signed up for...

It is hard to imagine a United States where Lindsey Graham’s proposed abortion ban could be advanced without expecting complete and total...

In the days since Roe was overturned, I have spent significant time reading, thinking, and ranting as more and more states place enormous...

It had been a long while since I have been roiled by Sheryl Sandberg. I think many highly educated, highly resourced, yet family-focused...

It’s Mother’s Day today, and I cannot think of a better way to honor that than to talk about abortion. That may seem ironic or odd to...

Last September, I wrote about a leap I took pairing with three students to support their college application process. Two weeks ago, my...

I love my Apple watch, but I’m starting to wonder whether it’s good for me. It’s not about the connectedness element – I like knowing...

Today is the second day of hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson who will almost certainly be confirmed as the first black woman to...

We fled Mumbai on March 14, 2020, two days before our scheduled departure. The borders were closing, as nations tried to contain the...

This past weekend, I finished a book called Cynical Theories. It is the best and most complete accounting I’ve seen to date of the...

I’ve pretty much set Mondays or Wednesdays as the day each week I spend time on my blog. The point of scheduling it is to keep myself...

I have been bugging Jack since December to start looking into summer internship opportunities. Granted, as a Type-A planner, I probably...

The last two weeks have felt like old times in many ways. First was the travel – Jim and I were in four locations in fourteen days, and...

My dear friend Chris is a new subscriber to my blog, and it was just after he started reading when he asked if he could offer advice...

As we start to see an ebbing of Omicron in the US and our hospitals become less overwhelmed, I find myself once again struggling to...

Last week, I learned that my first real mentor had passed away. It was a shock – Hal was only in his mid-sixties – and a sadness has...