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 | Jan 24, 2018 | Balance, Change, Parenting, Teenager
Time passed. One day became two. Weeks became months. What began as a temporary absence evolved into a void. No writing. No journaling. No attempt at an opening paragraph. On occasion, I hastily blurted a random thought or two into a voice memo on my phone. But the...
by Jeremy Topin | Oct 24, 2017 | Balance, Parenting, Teenager
“Doc, I don’t see why I need all these meds. Can’t I stop them? Any of them?” I hear this often from my patients. Sometimes they are right. They are on too many meds and don’t need them all. But sometimes it takes removing a medication for a period of time in order to...
by Jeremy Topin | Mar 22, 2017 | Balance
There you are, in the big chair, half curled and snuggled up against me. A tangled clump of hair covers part of your face. You’re somewhere between wake and sleep listening to Goodnight Moon and my made up stories of butterflies and rainbow fish. You are warmth to my...
by Jeremy Topin | Mar 18, 2015 | Balance, Parenting, Teenager
Traevelling 30,000 feet above the ground on my way back to Chicago, it’s hard not to think about distance and space. How people in the same room can still feel worlds apart while others can be physically separated by hundreds of miles and still be intimately...
