Category: Mental Meanderings

When I was little, a tornado blew through the town next to ours. We could hear it. It sounded like a locomotive chugging through the sickly yellow-tinted skies. A few days later, my dad piled us all into the car, and we went rubbernecking through devastated neighborhoods, eyes agog at the uprooted trees and crushed…

I have posters on the walls of the room where I do ultrasounds. Several posters are of outer space – the Andromeda galaxy, the moon, and star formations photographed by the James Webb space telescope.  One day, I was scanning a woman who seemed a little off. When she spoke, her eyes darted around wildly.…

When I woke up today, I saw what looked like a juvenile bald eagle or hawk perched on a wire. My sister claimed it was a young owl. At any rate, its identity baffled several of us. It was a poofy ball of feathers, a bird of prey, preening its feathers just like any bird.…

The Odyssey, written by Homer and brought to life by Christopher Nolan, is an action-packed saga of a great warrior and adventurer. But it is also an allegory for life in general. We don’t have Sirens or Cyclops or whirlpools or the wrath of Poseidon in our lives, but there are a myriad of parallels.…

I was on the phone trying to get a better deal on my home insurance when the man on the other end started rattling off strange words. He was from Texas and wanted to know if I lived in any of the Ohio counties he was listing.  First of all, as he was checking off…