I often wonder whether my voice is somehow mysteriously muffled like the adult voices in the animated Charlie Brown movies, or if perhaps I am just not a clear speaker. It occurs to me that occasionally my voice becomes the background noise to the rest of life.
The roads were already icy by midday on Sunday, December 24th. I wasn’t overly concerned. We had just put new tires on the Subaru five days earlier, and there’s nothing so sticky as a fresh pair of treads. That plus the Suby’s all-wheel drive made navigating the hills around us pretty straightforward.
I get emotional when I stop to think about my beautiful daughter growing up. Each phase, even the tough ones, are precious and so fleeting. I look forward to each new milestone she will achieve, but still mourn the passing of each day as she grows out of her younger self and relies less on me.
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I have a variety of keepsakes I carry with me on any given day. They remind me of my father, my grandparents, and my kids. I wear my father’s Jewish star every time I’m going through a major life moment. It was around my neck at my rabbinic ordination, as I birthed both of my babies and other milestones I knew he would have wanted to be there for.
Since 2003, the answer we have given as a state has been “yes, health care is a public mandate.” That was when we began to use a mechanism known as provider assessment. Because of this, hundreds of thousands of our neighbors and tens of thousands of our children gained access to stable, quality care through medicaid.
