by Ann Beach | Sep 24, 2026 | Medicine
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most famous writers of the 1800s. Her novel Aurora Leigh and her book of poems, Sonnets From the Portuguese (including How Do I Love Thee?) still resonate. She lived 55 years (1806-1861) and spent much of her life at home as...
by Ann Beach | Sep 1, 2026 | Medicine
Imagine you’re a liberated woman at the turn of the last century (1890-1915). It’s now allowed for you to travel without an escort and you and some of your friends even have (gasp!) jobs. You are comfortable traveling on public conveyances like buses and trams. You...
by Ann Beach | Aug 6, 2026 | Medicine
Annelise Blanchette, a biologist working on her PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology, was deep into her research on lead levels and mockingbirds in New Orleans when the Covid pandemic changed everything. She and her team were locating mockingbird nests, trapping...
by Ann Beach | Jul 25, 2026 | Medicine
With Covid in the rear-view mirror, I put my Covid immunization card and an N-95 mask in my memory box, for children and grandchildren to see one day. What do you associate with Covid? What do you think people will think of 100 years in the future when they read about...
by Ann Beach | Jul 15, 2026 | Medicine
Have you, like much of the United States and the world, been riveted to FIFA soccer this summer? In a country where football, baseball and basketball reign supreme, it looks like we are finally catching up to the rest of the world, doesn’t it? I live in Atlanta, and...
