Recent changes to vaccine recommendations have reignited debates about public health, personal choice, and government policy. As a former healthcare provider, I take a look at RFK Jr.'s vaccine agenda, the misinformation surrounding vaccines, and the strange contradiction between bodily autonomy and selective government interference.
The hardest part of grief isn’t always the catastrophe itself. Sometimes it’s realizing the world quietly resumes while you’re still standing in the wreckage trying to understand what survived.
“How are you?” may be the most dishonest social ritual we participate in daily. A sardonic reflection on performative concern, survival-mode conversations, and why most people really only want the short version.
“How are you doing?” seems like such a simple question until life becomes complicated enough that there’s no simple answer anymore. A reflection on survival mode, grief, friendships, executive function, and learning to walk a very different road than the one imagined years ago.
