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Stewardship of Stuff

An intense pleasure of my profession as a chemical engineer is the practice of balancing. Not the balancing of a body in movement (although I do know that pleasure – in dance and in Aikido), but the balancing of accounts of the earth itself. Everything that comes out of the earth goes back into it. Or almost everything.

On Garbage (November 2017)

Pro-Woman Practice and Policy

For most of my medical career, I worked in family planning, providing contraceptive care so that children could be planned, loved, and supported. I also performed abortions when contraception failed. For forty years, I have been supported in this work by my Quaker beliefs.

On Politics (July 2017)

Gossip, Friends, and friends

“To put it in the language of Friends, community happens as that of God in you responds to that of God in me.” 

On Separation (November 2019)