Flights Are $1,450 Each,” My Mom Said. 

hiking through forests misty with rain and sitting on the rocky shore, watching the waves crash.

I didn’t think about them. I thought about the patients I’d cared for, the friendships I’d built at the hospital, the life I was making for myself, on my own terms.

One evening, sitting on my hotel balcony, I looked at a photo I’d taken of a sunset over the continue reading …