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Dear Media People: Quit Using the Word “Adoption” | Raising Kvell
Dear Media People: Quit Using the Word “Adoption” | Raising Kvell. What a fascinating article! This was shared by a friend on Facebook, and, at first I thought, “Oh dear, another rant about the stigma of adoption.” But, I’m so glad that I read the article, as it opened my eyes to some weird and…
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Nobody Said That Then! Masters of Sex, Not of Slang : The New Yorker
I love reading Hendrik Hertzberg, and hearing his commentaries on The New Yorker comment podcast, and this recent article of his caught my eye: Nobody Said That Then! Masters of Sex, Not of Slang : The New Yorker. And that article led me to the source he sites: Prochronism:Downton Abbey, Season 4 I so enjoyed…
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Discussing end-of-life decisions
Every now and then, in my work as a physician, I have to broach the topic of impending death with a patient. As a doctor who specializes in carrying mostly for people infected with HIV, that used to be a common discussion, and happily, with very effective medications which we now have available, the discussion…
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Happy Birthday to Me!
Google greeted me today with this: Thanks, Google!
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Switching seats
For a long time now, S has claimed the passenger side seat, and J gets the seat right behind me. This arrangement allowed me to have conversations with S when J wasn’t yet talking, and S and I could make eye contact (or, at least, he could see part of my face while I was…
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“It’s NOT my birthday!”
S had his birthday, and J was asking “How long until my birthday?” since then. We knew he wanted a Lego birthday, and he was excited about the prospect of celebrating. We finally decided on the date and time, and sent out the invitations. J even had me add extra guests who he particularly wanted…
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Discharge plan: to jail
My first real job in the health care field was an internship I participated in as an undergraduate. I worked for a summer at the Family Practice Residency Program of Natividad Medical Center in Salinas, CA. A few years prior to my internship, one of the residents had noticed that there were an unusual number of…
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Opus No. One
I love This American Life!! It’s broadcast on Saturday afternoons in our area, so I almost never get to hear it on the radio, so I rely on their podcast. But, sometimes I fall behind on my podcast listening. So, although we are already well into February (how did January fly by so quickly??), I…
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A month of Sabbaths
Every Saturday of the last four weeks has been unique and given me ideas I have wanted to write about, but time slips by… So, before I forget… Four weeks ago – Dad was feeling under the weather, so I headed out with the boys. The weather prediction was for rain, but as we left…
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The smell of new linoleum
I walk into the hospital complex where I work through a new entrance, which opened just a few months ago. It’s a lovely entrance, with a security desk. It’s of a grand entrance – a foyer – with a lot of photos of benefactors who funded this new building creating an impressive mural lining a…
