Edwin Leap

I attended a graduation recently. It was unlike any graduation I had ever had the privilege of watching. It was a combination commencement and party, rolled into one. There was no crowded auditorium, no desperate need for more air... Continue Reading »

Thank you, American Airlines and Grapevine, Tex., for my delightful, unexpected vacation. I?m not being sarcastic, I?m being dead serious. My family had an accidental three day layover in April 2008 that turned into a great memory. So I... Continue Reading »

One night, a few years ago, as I lay my little daughter onto her blankets (the soft fleece ones that we put between our bed and the window so that she could sleep by us and not be afraid)... Continue Reading »

A family is a small kingdom. Their house is the castle, to be clich?. It is mutable, its location flexible. But the royalty, the humans who live within it, define the kingdom. Small children understand this very well. The... Continue Reading »

My wife and two of my children are out of town. She took our two oldest sons on a church youth mission trip to North Carolina. It has been, apparently, a great success. It's hard to tell, since every... Continue Reading »

At Christmas, we celebrate the physician. Not the earthly ones, but the eternal one. He knew everything, but came to share his patients? pain. He came to where agony walked the streets, misery haunted the alleys, pain stalked the... Continue Reading »

I often joke that I?m not only an emergency medicine specialist; I?m an ?alcoholologist.? It took quite a while for me to develop that expertise. See, I grew up in a home where no one used alcohol and none... Continue Reading »

When I was younger, after medical school, I went through a profanity phase. It was a ridiculous time of my life, and one I?m happy to report is long gone and long forgiven. It was an odd time. I... Continue Reading »