Lexi Lerner's life has woven through infectious diseases, violin, poetry, religion, philosophy, psychology and animal rights. Lerner is an M.D. candidate at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Contact: [email protected].
by Lexi Lerner I call on the evening of the winter solstice. Two mornings later, I find myself boarding a plane to the Black Hills of South Dakota, soon to turn white from a Christmas blizzard. I have never experienced these mountains or this state before. But I have experienced many blizzards, the first of…
by Lexi Lerner “All the greatest hits from the past forty years have the same four chords,” Axis of Awesome taught us a decade ago. “You can take those four chords, repeat them, and pump out every pop song ever.” The band has since released multiple versions of its famous four chord medley, cataloguing more…
by Lexi Lerner “They all go the same way. Look up, then down and to the left,” the EMT said. “Always.” Why? “I don’t know,” he said. “Well – I think they know. When they look up, they’re just… waiting.” And the next part – why to the left? Because of the heart? “I don’t…
by Lexi Lerner Like twins, light and heat are born from the same flame. Each has an attractive and destructive force. For light, it’s illumination and blindness. For heat, warmth and burning. What you experience when you approach a flame is a matter of proximity and duration. How long will you keep your eyes there,…
by Lexi Lerner Traveling to a place where no one knows you, nor where anyone’s particularly interested, is terrestrially analogous to Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot. So far away from home, you look over your shoulder at that bright, dense pinprick of everything you’ve ever understood, valued, loved, identified as… and think to yourself: That…