Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Lewis’ A Grief Observed and Didion’s Year of Magical Thinking

  • Desert blooms

    Geraldine GormanChicago, Illinois, United States Springtime has come to the desert. It is subtle, but spring, nonetheless. I am here with a group of nursing students who are spending their break working with a humanitarian aid organization serving the undocumented border crossers. Some of us are in Nogales, which spans the Arizona/Mexican border, some in the…