Wendy Hawke Lenz, M.D. is a retired physician turned personal essayist and the owner of Hawke Girl Media. She writes short stories and small truths at Between Business Cards. Her essays are also found on Substack and on Medium where she writes for Crow's Feet and The Memoirist. She is currently completing her first novel.

  • Personal essay about a family Christmas not going as planned, but ending in love
    Family & Roots

    Finding Christmas

    We weren’t prepared for missing Christmas. It was an unseasonably mild December. A wintry mix of sleet and rain started early Christmas Eve morning, turning our yard into ice-crusted soggy mush. Shorn cornstalks bent in homage to the wet earth.…

    Read More