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Because I have Children

January 13, 2025

My mother, Diana Weaver Kahan, was a poet. Her birthday was yesterday. She would have been 90. Instead, she lives in eternity. She was not a published poet but a lover of poetry who read to me regularly and occasionally wrote her own. I am particularly fond of this poem she wrote in 2004: Because […]

Taking the Canines to the Beach

January 6, 2025

Desperate for some beach time, we all piled into the car last week after New Year’s and headed to eastern Maryland, where the Chesapeake Bay is prominent. We came to Downs Park, which has a tiny beach. There, the dogs played. Divya is sporting her hot pink sweatshirt because the weather is crisp, and she […]

2025 Grand Challenges

December 31, 2024

Grand Challenge: Transform U.S. Education > Idea: Remove traditional grade levels entirely, replacing them with mastery-based systems that let students progress based on demonstrated understanding rather than age or time spent. Grand Challenge: Repair US healthcare > Idea: monetize preventative care as a subscription service, incentivizing healthcare providers to keep populations healthy rather than treating […]

Leading Yourself

December 24, 2024

Elizabeth Lotardo launched the LinkedIn Learning course ‘Leading Yourself’ in 2017. In 2020, as the world moved into remote work and many employees yearned for deeper meaning, she updated the course, which took off. In 2024, her movement captured over 1M learners on LinkedIn Learning and launched a bestselling book by the same title. It’s […]

Marla Weston on my Podcast

December 16, 2024

Former ANA CEO Marla Weston, PhD, RN, FAAN, discusses Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™ (HNHN) on my Grand Challenge podcast. Marla led the HNHN Grand Challenge to measurably improve the health of America’s nurses. This initiative engages diverse stakeholders and has overcome significant challenges. In this episode of my podcast, she emphasizes defining the problem, allowing […]

Best Buddies

December 9, 2024

You wouldn’t think these two would fight, but occasionally, they get into it with each other. In this picture, they are playing in our front yard. They […]

First Time

December 2, 2024

Last Friday, I went to my first hockey game. I would not have been there without an invitation from my sister-in-law, Ivy. This photo shows me rinkside […]

Patrick Kennedy on My Podcast

November 25, 2024

  The first major conversation on my new podcast, Seth Kahan on Grand Challenges, is Patrick Kennedy. Kennedy is a former U.S. Congressman and leading mental health […]

New Podcast

November 18, 2024

Grand Challenges represent society’s wicked problems—complex, persistent, and difficult to solve due to incomplete, contradictory, and ever-changing demands. Yet, addressing them is essential for humanity and life […]

Medical Physics

November 11, 2024

I am proud to share that I will work with the American Association of Physicists in Medicine to identify the biggest, boldest challenges to create breakthroughs in […]

Breaking the Barriers Between Us

November 4, 2024

This photo crossed my desk yesterday, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and John Lewis. Lewis was born poor, but a free African American in Maryland the same year […]

Autumn by the Potomac

October 28, 2024

I often walk along the Potomac, enjoying one of the land’s great rivers so close to my home. Yesterday afternoon, on a beautiful fall day, Laura and […]

Gandhi the Man

October 21, 2024

If you follow me you know that for a couple of years I have been studying the Bhagavad Gita, a popular (for 1,000s of years) poem that […]

Self-Care

October 14, 2024

It’s fall here in DC, and the weather is getting cooler. That means I’ll be looking for an overnight camping trip soon! Kaya and I get out […]

Older Monday Morning Mojo Posts

Laura’s Album Release Concert

October 7, 2024

My Mental Health Policy Week

September 30, 2024

Why Grand Challenges?

September 23, 2024

Off to the Races with Grand Challenges!

September 16, 2024

Family Time

August 12, 2024

Service Dog, Divya

August 5, 2024

Well Wishes to Gregg Martin in Ukraine

July 29, 2024

Back from the Woods

July 22, 2024

Anticipation

July 15, 2024

Driving Lessons!

July 8, 2024

The Bipolar General

July 2, 2024

Summit!

June 24, 2024

Heart of the Wilderness

June 17, 2024

Into the Woods

June 10, 2024

Baby Divya

June 3, 2024

Looking for Mental Health Influencers

May 27, 2024

Dogs in Training

May 20, 2024

Rainbows

May 13, 2024

Saraswati by the Fruit Bowl

April 29, 2024

Securing Support

April 22, 2024
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