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Can’t wait to jump in the pool
This spring I’ve been behind with everything. It’s very frustrating, but especially with two areas of life/activity that are dependent on the weather – gardening and our swimming pool. It suddenly got hot! 90 degrees today, and nothing would feel better at the end of a day like this than to jump in the cool…
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Getting silly while doing homework
So, not even wanting to go to the thoughts that I have about why my kindergartener is being assigned regular weekly homework… (another time for that rant!) It was Tuesday night, and the homework is always due on Thursday. We’d completed about half of it on Sunday and Monday (we almost never get started before…
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Mishpacha & Me
I spent an hour today at J’s preschool, attending their annual program, “Mishpacha & Me”. Mishpacha means family in Hebrew, and my first connection to the word was from a Harry Belafonte album, “Belafonte at Carnegie Hall”, when he includes the word in the song “Mama Looka Boo Boo Day” (and he does a lovely…
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Meredith Monk
I regularly listen to the APM program On Being hosted by Krista Tippett, and I often listen to both the produced/edited podcast, as well as the uncut interview. This program was fascinating, but I actually enjoyed the unedited interview more than the produced show – I have to admit that I had the same reaction…
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An unexpected benefit of implementing EMR
This blog has been mostly a place for me to record my life with boys, but here’s a completely different subject, just for a change: On January 3 of this year, the clinic I work in went “live” with an EMR – electronic medical record system. Our entire university medical campus is slowly implementing the…
