Behind the Naked Face

The Naked Face by Malcolm Gladwell https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/08/05/the-naked-face The part of this post that pulled me to reading it was not the title, or the subject area, but the author. The author, Malcolm Gladwell, is a writer for the New Yorker and host of (my favourite podcast) Revisionist History. Much of this Canadian journalist’s work revolves […]

We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse’s Tale

http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/abortion/Tisdale.htm   For a very long time, I have wanted to pursue a career of medicine, specifically obstetrics and gynecology. My reasoning has always been that women’s health and education about her reproductive system is of the utmost importance. I am very pro-choice, so this subject area is very significant to me. I am pro-choice […]

African Storm Paragraph

Small Acts, Big Effects Gandalf’s quote, from Lord of the Rings, makes the observation that it is not power which holds evil at bay, but small acts of kindness. This simple idea is reflected in Allison Howard’s South African Storm. Howard’s idea that her act of walking, rather than driving, for groceries, poignantly states how the […]