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.

  • Canning peaches turned into a lesson on grit
    Family & Roots

    Pits and Grit

    The phone rang after midnight. My dad had suffered a major heart attack. As one of five daughters and a doctor, I traveled to stay with my mother in Delaware while Dad was recovering in the ICU. I met with…