On Sunday, March 4th, 2012, I found myself in the front passenger seat of my just-leased black Audi A6 with 3 of my 6 children on a drive north of Minneapolis to a destination not of my liking: Hazelden drug rehab center in Center City, Minnesota. I had finally raised
Abstract We surgeons are trained, through our culture and our experience in residency and practice, to tolerate high levels of stress. The key word in that sentence is "tolerate" or endure. Endurance and grit are incredible superpowers that can transform our ability to grow, learn, and adapt. But
Happy New Year! The picture above is from July 2022, during a trip to Florence, Italy. My wife Lea was taking a month-long portrait painting class at the Florence Academy of Art, and we were staying at an Airbnb in the center of Florence. Each morning Lea rode her rental
Last Saturday, November 18th, 2023, I flew to Los Angeles, CA, to join my son Sam on a bike ride from LA to San Diego. I took my Moots bike to the Angry Catfish bike shop in Minneapolis, where they packed it up in a box that I took on