Sasha Wren articles

The First Time I Woke a BabyI'll never forget the first time Rachel told me to wake up a sleeping baby. It was my second day at Little Sprouts Daycare, and a mom came rushing...

The Ice Cream IncidentSo this happened last Sunday at my parents' house, and I'm still kind of processing it. My little sister Lily was sitting at the kitchen table eating ice cream—chocolate with rainbow sprinkles,...

The Good Old DaysLook, I know everyone says their workplace used to be better 'back in the day,' but ours actually was. Our old manager, Michael, ran the department like a human being who remembered...

The Colosseum IncidentSo there we were, sitting in Linda's perfectly beige living room, scrolling through our Rome vacation photos on my laptop. I was still riding that post-vacation high, you know? The kind where everything...

Just Another Long CaseI grabbed the chart from the rack at 2:37 AM, my third shift in a row at Memorial ER. 'Linda Morrison, 62, Multiple Medical Problems' was written at the top—basically code for...

The Feeling Before the StormLook, I'd been slinging plates for three years at that point, so I thought I'd seen every possible nightmare customer combination. Friday nights at our place were always packed—every table full,...

He might have been almost 9 feet tall, but Robert Wadlow was a gentle giant known for his quiet manner and easy smile. Unfortunately, the world isn’t made for people that tall and he often struggled with finding accommodations for his great height. Health issues plagued him from the start and he lived only 22 years—but he still managed to make the most of it.

The Parents in the DoorwayI still remember the exact moment Ellie first mentioned them. We'd been in the house for three weeks, and I was unpacking boxes in the kitchen when she wandered in from...

The Patient Who Thanked Me for EverythingI'll never forget the first time I met Jeannie. She was sitting up in her hospital bed when I came in for my shift, and the first thing she...