The fight over a pregnant teenager (or how the pro-lifers won me over, I suppose) 

Let me start by saying that I am officially pro-choice. I vehemently do not want to see abortion become illegal. However, I don’t think I would ever have an abortion, and that is based on my… Read full post »

It was nearly midnight on a Saturday night during my fourth year of veterinary school when she was presented to me.  As part of my emergency medicine rotation, I was working in the after-hours clinic of the university veterinary teaching hospital along with three other classmates, a technician a/… Read full post »

Ohio is an interesting place. Much of the area is rural to small town, but vastly more of the population resides in larger towns and cities. The northern part of the state trends liberal, especially in the northeast corner, and the southern part of the state is very conservative and not unlike… Read full post »

In honor of Halloween…

I have already written about my preschool-age son and his spooky/intriguing ability to talk about death and spirits in a manner unexpected for someone of his age here .

The two unexplainable experiences in my life both happened in old houses on college campuses… Read full post »

I voted this afternoon in Franklin County, Ohio, which is the county in central Ohio containing the city of Columbus. The county contains approximately 1.1 million residents, and 74% were white, 20% black and 4% Asian as of 2006.

For some reason, early voting takes place at one central location… Read full post »