One of the benefits of residency is that I get to uproot my life every few years, ditching the nagging responsibility of upholding friendships with even my closest friends. As an added bonus, this means I get to collect friends like I used to collect snow globes–the more, the merrier! Ah, the extrovert’s dream. One […]
We all know the names Orville and Wilbur Wright, Thomas Edison, and Milton Hershey. Each talented inventor played a monumental role in establishing necessities of life as we know it. But could any of us name the man who invented the beautiful bell that wakes us up every morning? Just this week my husband neglected […]
A recent study conducted at Costello Van Dyke University Medical Center led to an astounding discovery that will change the lives of every family with access to televisions, computers, phones, or tablets. Born on the eve of the September 7th, 2016 Apple Event announcing the iPhone 7, this research project was in fact the brain […]
I’ll make this short and sweet, like my experience at the DMV. But my soul can’t rest until I share with my fellow moms my recommendation for the DMV as your next destination when you need a break. Consider this. When one of your oldest kids is sick, another is a threenager, and twins popped […]
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 […]
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 […]
Summer as a pregnant teacher has meant one major thing to me: it’s time to slip into pajamas (the only comfortable thing these days) and binge watch some Netflix. I know I’m a thousand years behind, but I figured it was time to finally see why all the critics raved about Prison Break. I expected the show […]
It all started with a poorly timed gym membership renewal. Coming off of Christmas break, I felt like the laziest of all hibernating creatures. Candy canes. Fudge. Cinnamon popcorn. Pumpkin everything. Chocolate in all its original flavors, but made more appealing because of it’s festive shapes–bells with crunchy mint specks and christmas trees stuffed with […]
Some call it Wednesday. Others call it Hump Day. Dante called it Hell. Dante’s Inferno is the story of a journey through the nine circles of the underworld, told by Dante himself. Each circle represents a residence for different kinds of sinners. He starts: In the midway of this mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, […]
At a recent girls’ night, the question was posed: Which character from Inside Out is the most dominant in YOUR head? It sparked a lively conversation, so I want to know what you think! Which character has the most control over your mental switchboard? Let me know in the comments! It took me a little […]
