Diary of a Real-Life Veterinarian

 I sit to write each morning, (save for the surgeries days), to clear the clutter and calm the demons. Me and Magpie.. morning coffee and cu...

  Everyone else guessed it, I had dismissed it as foolishly foreshadowing. A ruse. A game with no clear odds favoring one or the other. When...

Purgatory is that place between places. The place where bad outweighs otherness. "The place of temporary suffering," as Webster no...

Walking away.  For those of us who choose to travel abroad with the hope of helping, do something meaningful, and, influence an unjust reali...

What if I told you that the problem was 100% you? Land mine marker, side of the road driving in Ukraine. Could you accept it? Or swallow it?...

Everyone is asking for snippets. Little pieces of the far away trip to share. The stocking stuffers to add flavor and texture to a place you...

The panes keep flipping. One after another, almost every single one a snapshot of a face that haunts me like the ghost of a departed too soo...