The Honest Apothecary

A blog about the topics I love most: Leadership, pharmacy, family, friends, food, faith, and everything else

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My Departed Friends’ 3 Questions

The loss of every loved one is significant, no matter how many people knew or admired the person. But sometimes the Lord brings a person into your life whose loss is felt...

My 2024 Jimmy Fund Walk

Founded in 1947 with a mission to provide compassionate care while pursuing cutting-edge research to combat cancer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is a world leader in...

The Facility of Fault-Finding

Of the catalog of vices, maybe none is more convenient to nurture than that of fault-finding. It is a wonderfully useful sin. Those who invest the time and effort to...

Talking Shop After Work

This post might feel more like wandering than writing. Please forgive me. Sometimes writing happens that way. You aren’t sure where to start, what to say, or how to...

The “Great” Individual Contributor

“So you see Jason,” said the man we’ll call “Steve”, to me as we sipped on our coffees in the cafeteria, “Tonya is a great individual...

Posting Dosing – How Often?

Another important decision I had to make, as I began to re-imagine The Honest Apothecary blog, was about the posting cadence I intend to keep up. To put it in more...

I Prefer Contacts to Comments

A post on my preference for connections rather than simple comments...

The Honest Apothecary – A Zero Copay Blog

One of the convictions I had as I began to re-imagine my blog is that it would be an entirely non-monetized form of expression. For some, blogging is actually a source of...

The Honest Apothecary – Reimagined

The Honest Apothecary blog was born over 20 years ago. It grew out of my twin loves for pharmacy and writing. For years I wrote on topics with a medicinal flavor to both...