I grew up in NY, attending Catholic schools through high school. Graduating from Harvard with a degree in Cultural Anthropology, I knew I wanted to be a medical doctor, but hadn’t finished my premedical requirements. In a period of five years, I took the remaining science courses and worked as a recreational therapist in a skilled nursing facility. I entered a five year MD/MS program in California, known as the UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Medical Program. I moved back to the East Coast to enter a Pathology residency at Yale. An unexpected illness cut short my medical career. 

This book represents a return to one of my earliest passions, writing. From when I was a child, I loved to write short stories and poems, and the return to writing was somehow both natural and long overdue. I suppose, though, I never really stopped writing, as journaling has always been part of my daily life. This book however is something special, and in some ways I feel as though I wrote it a long time ago…it just took me a while to move the words onto the page. 

This book is a tribute to my parents. They  both passed away prior to its writing, and yet I know they were beside me the whole time, cheering me on. Their love and support will continue to carry me forward for the rest of my life.