Frazzle

Been thinking a lot recently about patients' appointment-making habits. They come in all different shapes and sizes here: 1. The patient...

I've recently read the poem, "The Abortion" by Anne Sexton for the first time. Strange that I am someone who does this work an...

The Secret

A group of women sat around a quietly gurgling fountain on a dry summer day, waiting for the door to the church conference room to be unlock...

The Walk to Work

Jesus loves you! Doesn't carry well through the misty Saturday morning air that smells like leaves and otherwise like hope. You have a b...

The purse strings are so close, yet so far: Abortion coverage and DC sovereignty

Yellow = no lifesaving needle-exchange programs. White = go for it! I used to live and work in Washington, DC, a place where you'd thi...

Dirty Little Secret

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how we hide who we are and choices we make in our lives from others to avoid judgment. Why do we do ...

Gate Keeping Freedom

She called me with tears in her voice, the bruises on her face had only begun to swell. She told her boyfriend she was going to have an abo...