Tag: Illness

He picked it up from someone in Peru where he traveled on the Amazon drinking Ayahuasca before it was cool. Or safe. Of course, Courtney didn’t care about safe. He passed me a pipe. Try this. Cool, I said again. I was too high to say much else. Nor did I care. I figured I would feign intere...

One rainy Wednesday evening in November, I had dinner in Mayfair, central London, with a successful filmmaker, whom I’ll call Arthur. I thought I had him pinned after the first course of a rather extensive vegetarian tasting menu: a mushroom tea served in a tiny ceramic mug. Arthur likely g...

2-month-old female infant with massive global damage to brain cortex after cardiac arrest secondary to H. influenzae A meningitis. Brain injury is devastating with no chance for meaningful neurological recovery. That may be the most gut-wrenching case summary I’ve ever read. But for the ...

There is a recent story by The Associated Press, A list of mass killings in the United States since January, stating that “The 40-year-old man identified as a person of interest is a firearms instructor trained by the military and was recently committed to a mental health facility, a...

He thought about how his classmates teased him relentlessly. As payback, he plans to subjugate them. With his assault weapon pressed against their head, he wants to force his enemies to get on their knees. Any slight movement, and they’ll die. His victims will cry about how they’re...

Instead of rolling out of bed around 9 or 9:30 am to lay out my yoga mat and languidly select a work-out video and a podcast to listen to while I complete it, I’ve been bolting upright in bed to the sound of my alarm at 7am, and dashing to complete my mourning routine. I’ve been throwing...