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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, June 24th, a memorial was held to honor the memory of Johnny Dough, a beloved third year medical resident at Lima Londa Hospital in Southern California. His friends, family, and the medical community in which he was an integral part will miss him dearly. “I wish I had seen the signs,” said one of […]
We woke up Sunday morning and the first thing Rhett said to me was, “You better post about me on Instagram.” Out of character, this demand struck me as odd until I fully woke up to the realization that it was Father’s Day. Of course I would post about him. What else would a loving […]
It all started one day when Rhett was home to help during the bedtime routine. The best things always come about when there is a change in routine. I left our extremely gassy baby with him to be burped while I took care of putting our toddler to bed. Hours later, I came downstairs to […]
Today I decided to be a stereotype. Six days postpartum, stuck 5 hours away from family, I experienced a fortunate phenomenon: let’s call it Too Many Grandparents Syndrome. TMGS is very serious, and can result in a feeling that is often uncomfortable for young moms. With 3 out of 4 of my kids’ grandparents visiting […]
My husband is on “triple-threat” call this week, which means that on top of the crazy hours of orthopedic rotation, he is also answering pages related to three different orthopedic sub-specialties: hand, spine, and…some other service that escapes me. As the traumas roll in, he progresses in a downward spiral that leaves him resembling decapitated […]
