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Take a Meeting, Outward Bound Style

If it’s a jungle in the executive suite, a wilderness survival course may be just the training you need.

Article - 1984

 

Ranch Hands

Sweat stings my eyes, and my breath comes hard at 4,100 feet, but damned if I'll quit sawing. Muscle burn in my arm and shoulder confirms the toughness of the foot-thick cedar crushing the barbed wire fence that we're here to fix.

Essay - 2010

 
 
 

The ‘We Save Lives’ Myth

It's time to deflate the myth. We have focused for too long on the idea that we save lives and have therefore developed inaccurate perceptions of EMS. It is time to recognize that what we actually do, most of the time, is simply help people with problems which they are unable to handle alone.

Article - 1986

 

INTERSECTIONS - a nonfiction narrative -

It was midafternoon Wednesday in January when the phone rang. The winter light through the windows was clinical white, and I was alone in the house. It was the doctor.

Essay - 2010