Becoming an attendier attending and fighting the system. Have you ever witnessed a bald eagle in-flight? This view is one of the many benefits to our new accommodations in the wintery north. I have also done double takes realizing that in place of expected turkey vultures, here, eagles feast at roadside. Few words describe the animal as easily […]
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The snow has melted. We are in the thaw phase now. The last year has been a blur. Watching flakes swirl, dive, float, and finally rest upon the mounds of white. We have lived in a snow globe. We have worked to build a practice and a life. We have completed projects and tasks. We have been top in our fields, classes, […]
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It’s important to stir the pot. Otherwise, the stuff on the bottom burns; the stuff in the middle is mush; the stuff on the top is not done. And, everyone goes hungry. I’m not a chef. Anyone who really knows me, understands I am a foodie by nature but have no idea how the magic […]
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On the eve of my firstborn’s ninth birthday, I sit straddling the precipice that is working motherhood. The tenuous balance should not be lost on anyone, especially those that have experienced the climb. For those that haven’t, do not pretend to understand. Nearly a decade of wondering how to balance. Nearly a decade of second […]
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I have so many things to be thankful for this year. This time of Thanksgiving allows us to share with others the bounty that we have received. Of love, three beautiful girls that greet me with hugs and exclamations of “Mom’s home!” at the end of a hard day. Of love overflowed, a husband, who […]
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Lawyer: Even for a surgeon, wouldn’t you call that kind of schedule grueling? Miranda: YOU could say that. I wouldn’t. I would say it’s wildly successful. But then, I would never put a woman’s success in the “con” column. ~Grey’s Anatomy The first thirty days. The learning curve is as sharp as Sisyphus’s mountain. The […]
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The fields lay in the distance full of ripe soy beans and corn. Nearly ready for harvest. The sun rests just beyond in a burning orange as it begins to slip past the horizon. The children’s shrieks of laughter come from behind as they run through our front yard and the yards of our neighbors. […]
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I spent many summers around a card table with my Gran putting together puzzles. She started at the edges. Instructing me that if you lay a good foundation with the border, all the other pieces are easier to place. I preferred, and still do, the haphazard method. I find a piece and try to find […]
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Alice fell down the rabbit hole chasing the white rabbit. Many allusions have been made to falling down before finding success. We all have a rabbit we are chasing. And time is always running out. Medicine is no different. Medical students find their passion. They chase that passion through fields of angry flowers. In a […]
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Dementia is a terrible disease. Defined as senility, it covers a ‘broad category of brain diseases that cause a long term and often gradual decrease in the ability to think’. It robs you, like a thief in the night of the person that you once knew. Dementia robs the patient of their independence, personality, skills, memories, and ‘selfness’. It spares […]
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