It's surprising the folks you meet on the writing path.This is an image of a friend, Wes Ely, who is a professor at Vanderbilt University College of Medicine. We met as a result of some of my other writing--PewSpective, a blog on topics spiritual. He invited me to talk to a CMA meeting, where I met yet another remarkable man, Fr. John--and by extension, a remarkable palliative care nurse in Australia, AnnMarie Hosie and a prominent bioethicist, Ashley Fernandez (who is neither female nor Hispanic, as he is fond of pointing out).
We began collaborating on a topic near to our hearts: End of Life Care. The end result? A paper on the topic of feeding tubes, just accepted for publication in the Journal of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, high cotton indeed. This is not to mention a wonderful and collegial friendship that permits us to talk about all manner of topics, heady and mundane, with great comfort, knowing that disagreement is permitted and disparagement is not.
All because of a little blog that only about eight people in the whole world actually read.
It makes me wonder where Dying for Revenge might lead. Certainly it will be an unexpected path!
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