Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Christy D. Di Frances

  • Looking glass land

    Christy D. Di FrancesBoston, Massachusetts, USA I It begins the way stories often end: that excruciatingly one-sided conversation with some loved one or another. His grandmother. Finally something seems to awaken her from the obscurity of her world. “Do ye ken where he’s gone?”i She frames the question in a conspiratorial whisper, her eyes such…