At Home in Our Common Humanity

Initially published in the Raleigh News & Observer 5/4/2016   From Moses leading the Jews to the Promised Land, to the Holocaust survivors aboard Exodus 1947 seeking Palestine’s port of Haifa, to “there’s no place like home” Dorothy of...

Learning the Thunder

Originally published on 6 July 2016, in the Raleigh News & Observer.   Reflecting on the milepost of my 25 consecutive years as a licensed N.C. physician assistant, the last 20 at Duke, I recalled my black leather medical bag which was a graduation gift. As...

The Nature of Numbers

Initially published in the Raleigh NEWS & OBSERVER on 23 March 2016   “Mathematics is the language by which God has written the universe,” said Galileo. This metaphorical language of Galileo suggests that from the sub-atomic level of particle...

Sticking Life’s Landings

Initially published in the DURHAM NEWS on 10/5/2016   “Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, … and done a hundred things you’ve not dreamed of–wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence … put out my hand, and...