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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Today I’m sharing an unedited excerpt from the first draft of my current work in progress. (Yikes!) In case you haven’t been following, this book is a how-to, how-not-to, comedic insight into what it’s like to be a partner to a medical professional in training. As the days have been getting hotter, the sunshine has […]
As the battle with quarantine rages, I’ve been searching high and low for solutions to the boredom that is filling our house. We’ve exploded stick bombs, sprayed each other in the face with spray bottles, lined up every shoe in the house, and watched every episode of PJ Masks several hundred times. And while all […]
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Center for Disease Control has decided to uplift the spirits of the communities on the front lines by hosting a Match Day party for up-and-coming physicians. Match Day parties, a time-honored tradition among fourth year medical students, are held on a Friday morning every year. Match Day […]
I feel an important obligation to interrupt my usual commentary and present you with this treatise written by a proactive Walmart worker. She handed it to me after she finished loading 8 giant tubs of oatmeal into my trunk. I told her I was making cookies. She didn’t believe me. Whatever your reason for going […]
During my formative years, my dad put in a valiant effort to make me a well-rounded music connoisseur. Variety streamed from anything with speakers, from They Might Be Giants to Led Zeppelin. My siblings and I knew well that triangle man hated particle man, and all that glitters is gold. My mom did her best […]
As a writer, I’ve always believed in the importance of journaling. For the sake of posterity, I try to record as much as I can about our lives. In today’s case, I am impressed to make a record of a love lost: the apartment we said goodbye to this month. I am deeply depressed to […]
Yesterday was the first day of the “medical new year.” A new batch of handsome residents started at the hospital. They have that cute, deer in the headlights look, and I am just dying to meet my little newbies. There’s something so innocent about their specific mix of excitement and fear. I am not naive. […]
