If you don’t live in the Northeast, you might not know that it has now rained for forty days and forty nights (well at least it seems that way). Seriously, we have not seen the sun since May, and my lawn has turned into a field of mushrooms. I am sure there is some meteorologic [...]

Recently I have been having many discussions with my teenaged kids about the “unfairness” of life – usually around some rather non-Earth shattering topic such as the fact that the only job one could get requires working on the weekend, or that one of the others has two NY State Regents exams on the same [...]

I am writing this post from Boston, where I am attending the American Transplant Congress, somewhat misnamed, as there are as many members attending from Europe and Asia as there are from the Americas. It is one of the premiere meetings for transplant professionals, and this year they started a new tradition – which is [...]