Big changes always send my thoughts into eddies. On July 4, I received an email with life-changing potential. An invitation veer off of my career path, to try something new and exciting – and terrifying. A month later, my closet contents are stuffed into bags and boxes on the kitchen floor, with my anatomy atlases…

Leif Erikson at Hallgrímskirkja - Reykjavik, Iceland, Sept 2017 One foot in the boat and one on the shoreOne moving, unanchored – the other still mooredThe gulf ‘twixt the two creeping wider and wetterTime now to choose quickly; which foot is the better? I know well those things gathered neatly on land They're ducks in…

From the drafts folder: February 28, 2024 One year ago, I drove my trusty Subaru down a single-track drive hedged by waist-deep snow banks, hoping I'd turned in to the right chicken farm. I was exhausted. Frazzled. Burned out. I'd booked a glorified chicken coop on a whim a few days prior, looking for an…