We are so lucky to have the best fellows 💗

Really proud Lost Patients is among this year’s Best of the West contest winners. “This is an important, informative, and beautifully told story with the power to change how listeners think about public policy and the institutions that shape so many lives.” bestofthewestcontest.org/2025-contest...

My 11 year old came and protested with me so I said he could cuss on his sign!

There can be such beauty in board games, but that beauty can often be difficult to express or explain. I’m grateful for this kind and generous review, which somehow delicately balances lonesomeness and joy as it captures the full, uniquely human beauty of this timely and deeply important game.

Very proud to announce the Department of Health will now process all requests to change gender designation on birth certificates within three business days. Previously, there was as much as a 10 month wait.

Game day ready! MLEM and Fromage with @nathanbays.bsky.social

I’m so grateful for Will’s series about mental illness & the chance to share share my experiences as a public defender. Many thanks to Will, @sydbrownstone.bsky.social, & @esmyjimenez.bsky.social for the love they put into it & the compassion they showed for the folks at the heart of these stories.

Great friends, strong coffee, and an exciting new board game—Fromage is so good! Super interesting rotating worker placement mechanism, and even better a total commitment to its fun and unique theme, I just love it. #boardgames #fromage

It means accepting the reality that nobody has more information about me than me, nobody cares about what’s happening inside me more than me, and I am my own. I love myself because I’m the best possible person to have on my side.

A rainy day game of Arcs with great friends and great coffee. Hard to beat that. #boardgames #Arcs

My 11 yo son and I really enjoyed our first play of First Rat in Space by @pegasusspiele.bsky.social. Such a great game in which you race to collect junk parts like tin cans to build a spaceship for your ratronauts. A fun, light-hearted theme complemented by many different scoring paths. Loved it!

Bobbing in a sea of blood-soaked schlock, our deeply-reported podcast about the mental health system is one of the most-downloaded new shows of 2024. I'm proud of the whole team behind Lost Patients for showing what audio journalism can still achieve. analytics.podtrac.com/top-new-podc...

Most important decorations first. #tisthedamnseason #VancouverTSTheErasTour

We have to stop thinking that what affects children won’t affect us. It always has and it always will. We could change the whole world—no hyperbole—by truly putting the welfare of children first, with all the considerations of their full human rights.

Amazing and well deserved. @alisonbays.bsky.social is someone who role models how to fight for your patients, especially in a system that is deeply flawed and often hostile

Taking a break from studying for #rheum boards to share that my amazing mentor and friend @alisonbays.bsky.social has won the AMWA Exceptional Mentor Award! So grateful for your support in my life 🤩

The Death of Vivek Oji is a wonderful novel. One particular line has stayed with me for months, haunted me, especially over the last few weeks & as we prepare for what’s ahead: “Some people can’t see softness without wanting to hurt it.” When I read it, my heart sank with recognition. #BookSky