by admin | Feb 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
I just did something I’ve never done before; I was the guest editor for a medical magazine. I was giving a lecture at an annual conference at Emory School of Medicine, and fell into a conversation with Dr. Barry Silverman, one of the other speakers. Barry, an...
by Ann Beach | Feb 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
I’m just back from a weekend at the fascinating Georgia Writers Museum (https://www.georgiawritersmuseum.org/) in Eatonton, Georgia, near Lake Oconee. I’m all charged up to write! Who knew that 3 famous authors – Flannery O’Conner, Alice Walker and Joel Chandler...
by admin | Feb 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
It’s Mardi Gras season, years ago. Karen, my medical school roommate, and I are newly out of residency and in our first practices; she’s in Cardiology, and I’m in Pediatrics. We have met in New Orleans for fun, food, parades and a break from our new jobs. The...
by admin | Jan 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
Every January, my husband and I look forward to attending the Creativity Conference at The Cloister at Sea Island, Georgia. First of all, you can’t beat the surroundings. The Cloister is timeless and elegant, and the surrounding lush gardens help you forget it is the...
by admin | Oct 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
Janisse Ray, (https://www.janisseray.com/) best-selling author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and other books, gave a talk and book-reading at Atlanta History Center, and I was mesmerized. Her latest book, Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans, a...
by admin | Sep 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
It was sometime in the 1980s. Three of us young women doctors were driving back from a day at the beach. Still sandy and sunscreen covered, we were dressed in our bathing suits and cute beach coverups. Near dusk, on a country road, we came upon a car accident and an...
