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.

  • An empty you-hoo bottle. Personal essay about a first kiss
    This Life

    Kissed by Paul Simon

    The beveled glass of an empty Yoo-Hoo bottle sparkled under the fluorescent lights, spinning wildly as the eighth graders held their breath. Floorboards squeaked above us as we sat on cracked linoleum tile in the church rectory’s basement. We weren’t…