“It felt like a bomb dropped,” my daughter Emily recalled over lunch as she shared the circumstances and moments of terror that she and her husband, Josh, felt—the time they were given a pregnancy diagnosis of a potentially serious brain abnormality, which included being presented with the option to have … Read More
Is Empathy Toxic?
It was 2020 (that dumpster fire of a year!) and I was extolling the importance of empathy in a conversation with a friend. I was shocked when he pushed back, calling the term “woke” and “politically correct.” It was the first time I learned that some people view empathy as … Read More