Listening to the deafening grind of our blender while it worked hard to make my husband’s smoothie at 8:30pm, I cringed. The pillows around my ears couldn’t drown out the noise. It was surely tumbling up the stairs and pounding on the door of my sleeping son’s room. It hit me. The hands down absolute […]
This is a Power Tie!
This week I helped tame a class of four year olds at church. Not that they were tamed by the end of it, but we played a nice game of sit-in-your-chair ping pong. As exhausting as it was, there was a moment of enlightenment in the middle when one of the boys stood up resolutely […]
Insurance Is Fun!
Sometimes as humans we put off doing things, even when they offer the promise of great joy and excitement. I’m not sure why we do it. Maybe we have been brainwashed to believe certain items of business will be dull or riddled with anxiety, based solely on their names. For instance, taking out the trash […]
Your Resident Writer
Let’s get serious about life…sort of. Posting intermittently on this blog about the humor I found in life over the last few years has helped me get through our journey as medical students. (My husband was the student, I was the substitute teacher/mom, THANK GOODNESS. He must love what he does, that’s all there is […]