PitMad Pandemonium – Putting My Pitches Where My Mouth Is
I mentioned in my last post how I got here, and why I was so sleep deprived. What I forgot to mention was my sneaking tendency toward a caffein addiction by PitMad day, but that is beside the point. PitMad was upon me. If there was ever a day to justify caffein and chocolate consumption, […]
PitMad Pandemonium – Descent Into Madness
Toward the end of 2020, my book club read the book You Are a Bada** by Jen Sincero. If you’ve read another one of my posts and seen reference to this, my apologies. I have since been a little obsessed with a lot of the concepts she preaches. I’ll also take this moment to apologize to […]
Happy Christmas to All, and to All a Good Night
You’ve heard the famous line from the end of the poem, “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” by Clement Clarke Moore. (Side note: did you know it as called that? Me neither! You may know it as “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.”) Those jolly words are spoken by Santa, having just worked his magic on a […]
Good Riddance, Fall Sports
It’s been a whirlwind of emotions over here at the Arizona State University College Football house of obsessive fandom. First, we got this nugget of soul-sucking news: …to which I responded with the following melodramatic yet accurate deep-dive into my soul: I hate college football. I hate all sports, but college football is the worst. […]
I Don’t Drink: A Country Lover’s Dissonance
I started listening to country music when I first heard of Taylor Swift. “Teardrops on My Guitar” really resonated with my teenage heartbreak, and the fact that I was definitely not going to get over my first high school boyfriend. Or my second. Or my third. What if this love was my one and only […]
Mortuists vs. Morticians (Aphasia Style)
It was the day after the last day of second year of residency. The last 365 days had been jam packed with intense learning for Rhett. We took a long drive as a family to reconnect and give our brains a break. It soon became apparent that this brain break was much needed. As people […]
Orthopedic Resident Survives 2nd Year Only to Die From Bug Bite
The date was June 27th, 2020. Dustin was at the end of his 2nd year of orthopedic surgery residency training at a hospital in beautiful Southern California. His city was known for its elite status as a “Blue Zone,” a testament to the overall health of its occupants. Second year of orthopedic training is notoriously […]
The Pager Pixie’s New Sidekick
It had been five minutes since I turned on the sound machine in my daughter’s room. At just over one year old, she is the world’s most sensitive sleeper fifty percent of the time. We tiptoe when we walk down her hallway, and we refuse to watch anything with guns or a laugh track after […]
How I Caught the Plague from a Book
For the first fifteen years of my reading career, I dedicated myself almost exclusively to one genre: fantasy. What is reading if not a way to completely leave your own, completely factual life behind? Occasionally, I would meander into the realistic fiction section of the library, but even that was rare. Fantasy was life. I […]
No Germs Beyond This Point
In our house, we have no germs. I know what you’re thinking. “How is that possible? You have two kids!” First, I resent the implication that kids are germ-infested creatures. To think they house and spread germs more frequently just because they lick and touch everything and drool and sneeze all over everything, is simply […]