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Essays
Sea Captain's Daughter - New Haven Advocate
Robin said, "Poor mom, I looked so normal at birth." That was the first thing I heard her say.
My first year working on the Neurosurgery service at Yale-New Haven Hospital, I was called to see Robin Crabtree. She was a sea-breeze of a girl stuck in our surgical battle zone, an un-air-conditioned hallway with hardened weary nurses. Their call just said, "The abscess seized."
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Cold Case - Arbor Vitae
In a small line of cars ten Meriden policemen slowly drive down a carriage path in the Walnut Grove Cemetery. One after another each car eases to a stop. It’s ten in the morning, January 2, 2014. No one is around. The temperature is eighteen; it’s gusty, and there’s been a light snow. This is a ritual the Meriden police carry out, this date and time, every year. Many of the guys are veterans, some retired, one is eighty, while others are new patrolmen that were just kids when this all started. A few of the oldies complain year-to-year just how long they can continue while the younger ones take on the duty of keeping it going.
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