Lent is meant to be more than just giving up chocolate for six weeks. It’s also supposed to be more than forty (or ninety) days of cold showers or bread and water fasts. At least, that’s what St. John Chrysostom, the golden-mouthed preacher of the faith and Doctor of...
“You need to go straight to the emergency room,” my neuro-ophthalmologist said with great urgency. She had just diagnosed me with a “textbook” severe (and incredibly rare) Vitamin A deficiency that was leaving me blind. It was the first time meeting her: another...
