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The other day, a good friend shared with me a problem she was having. Later that day, we were sitting in a small circle of casual friends trying to find a solut

“You can’t know what you don’t know,” I recently heard myself say to a friend who was diagnosed with cancer. He looked at me in the strangest way. I was

LESSLEE DORT I enjoy reading. I don’t stick to a certain genre, though I have some favorites. I read at least three books at any given time. One on my Kindle, one in tangible book form, and the third I read by listening. Each medium fits a different part of my life. Because of the different manner each book is entering my brain; I seem to easily differentiate between them. Most books, fiction included, teach me something. Either I’ll isolate a phrase that has meaning to me, or some random f...

LESSLEE DORT There’s an ancient moral parable about a tyrannical Roman king named Dionysius, his court flatterer, Damocles, and a sword. The king lived in luxury, yet in constant fear of retaliation, assassination. Damocles would incessantly comment on how wonderful it must be to be king, without a worry in the world. One day Dionysius showed Damocles what being king felt like. He seated Damocles at a lush banquet full of glorious foods, gifts, and servants to meet his every need. Damocles wa...

Jan 21, 2021 I can remember a stay in the hospital years ago. The doctors were trying to figure out what was wrong with me. Lots of tests were performed. In an effort to keep up, I asked the doctor if I could read through his notes in my record. He had no problem with that. So, one afternoon I pulled on my sticky-bottom hospital socks and padded out to the hall and grabbed my medical record file (at that time they were stored on the wall outside the patient’s room). When the nurse came into m...