Tagged: thanksgiving

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On Technology, Thanksgiving, and Patience

[Originally written in 2007 for a campus publication while I was in medical school; it has remained disquietingly relevant.  It will be posted on the ESN blog tomorrow.] We have become impatient, unfulfilled, and perpetually fixated on the future. We have filled our lives with so much hardware and noise that it makes us...

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Bad People and Thanksgiving

As per my count, there have been at least three shootings within my three block radius in the past three months.  One resulted in a death.  The first one happened at an intersection I had driven through literally a minute beforehand; I heard the gunshots nearby after getting home and,...