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A New Chunk

All summer, we were four. Through three-plus weeks of travel filled with sights and cards, through three more weeks of pickleball, golf,...

Filling the Empty Nest

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...

A Note to My Readers

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,...

Our Holiday E-Blast

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...

Ham Jam

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

Becoming My Own Superhero

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...

The Antithesis of a Solution

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

Compromise is Not a Dirty Word

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

My Relationship with Sheryl

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

Choosing Motherhood

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...

Celebrating Olivia

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

Setting a Boundary Even Q Might Agree With

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...

Believing in the Lens of Impact

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

Two Years to the Date

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

A Vote for Shared Humanity

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...

A Small Indulgence

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...

My Dreamer

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

A Love Letter

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...

Neshama

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...

Baby Steps

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...

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