Grown and Flown

I’ve been through eighteen years of college drop off in my role as a psychiatrist at Boston
University Student Health Services.

Don’t knock on y...

I was at the UPS counter taping a box shut when my friend’s husband walked in carrying a box of his own. We both knew why the other was there. Our kids were away at school, and we were mailing them things they didn’t strictly need.

He picked a school eight and a half hours away. I packed a box of Kleenex for the drive home. I never needed it.

I packed a box of Kleenex in my son’s things. Not for his dorm room. For my

After looking up a recipe for braised short ribs, I realized I was missing a key tool: A Dutch oven. So, I got into the car and headed out into a late Sunday morning rainstorm, determined to find one.

As I stood in the appliance aisle of a local store, debating which Dutch oven to buy, I heard her. “...

When I was getting married 30 years ago, my sister told me that she thought wedding planning was the prefect prep for marriage because it is a microcosm of all the things a couple will deal with in their relationship; expectations, mone...