by Jeremy Topin | Aug 9, 2018 | Balance, Parenting, Teenager, Transformation, Triathlon
Two friends (younger than me by more than two decades) are training for the Ironman and I decided to join them for their first of two 40-mile loops. I had already decided to defer my own race entry to next year due to a combination of aches and pains, along with...
by Jeremy Topin | May 30, 2018 | Medicine, Transformation
A few years ago, I stumbled upon the Moth Stories. Originally based out of New York, but now in cities around the country, people would come together at a venue to share and listen to personal stories based on a theme for the evening. Ten people, randomly selected...
by Jeremy Topin | May 22, 2018 | Balance, Change, Transformation
So, a wannabe author/writer walks in to a writer’s conference… Sounds like the beginning of a not very funny joke. But, that was me earlier this month as I attended the Harvard’s Writing, Publishing and Social Media Conference for Healthcare Professionals. Quite a...
by Jeremy Topin | May 18, 2018 | Balance, Change, Medicine, Transformation
Fast I eat. Fast. Often, I consume the food I place on my plate before I even make it to the kitchen table. It’s as if I grew up during times of famine, desperate for each and every morsel. On the rare night my family has dinner together, I am usually finishing just...
by Jeremy Topin | Apr 20, 2018 | Balance, Burnout, Change, Healthcare Reform, Medicine, Parenting, Transformation
How do you know when someone is broken? When their spirit is fractured? When their sense of self no longer aligns with what once was. When you feel as if you have woken up in a foreign land, but that sense of displacement is coming from you, not your surroundings. In...
by Jeremy Topin | Apr 3, 2018 | Balance, Parenting, Teenager, Transformation
Minutes into my early morning run, the howl of a lone coyote broke the silence in the basin. A second one responded, and then two quickly became three. Other coyotes joined in, their howling echoing all around. On previous trips to Oregon, I’d found comfort and hope...
