Andrew turned 39 without a convincing prospect of getting married. He was busy establishing his tax practice and confined his dating opportunities to the J-date app. His future bride, Marissa, was also using J-date to find a suitable spouse. She was seeking a suitable life partner, but was frustrated in her search. No one fit…

In my family we have a cherished saying, which is that “Life is like a fountain.” This saying has passed down from generation to generation. Shortly after Andrew and Marissa’s antelopement, Andrew thanked me profusely for imparting this sage wisdom to him. “Life is like a fountain” had given him strength and confidence throughout his…

Back in the days before cellphones and the internet, I was a physician specializing in vascular surgery. For one day every other week I was obliged to take call for my hospital’s emergency room, but I was seldom called. While I was in the hospital one day, I received a page from the emergency room. The ER doctor had admitted a twenty-year-old man in a coma following a car accident. I asked him why he called…