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The importance of community
I don’t think of myself as the most social of people. I have difficulty dealing with crowds of people I don’t know. I hate showing up at a party where I don’t know anyone, and trying to get into conversation with people. When I do end up at big crowded parties, I am most comfortable…
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Why I moved out…
It’s now been nearly nine months since I moved out of our suburban Rockville home to an apartment in Baltimore, and several times over those months, I’ve been made aware that the outside perception of the fact that it was I who left (rather than my husband, the more traditional partner to vacate the family…
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Reunion weekend
I’ve just checked in at the courtyard of Ross Hall, at 23rd and Eye Streets in downtown Wash DC, where I showed up 24 years ago to start my medical career. I’m back for my 20th year reunion. Sadly, I had to work in the hospital up in Baltimore this morning, and one thing after…
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Allowing a community to support you
This month, the online book club From Left to Write read Those We Love Most, and this triggered a very personal memory for me: The Nature vs Nurture question often comes to mind as I observe at how different my kids are (all three – the biologic, and the adopted), but occasionally, the idea applies…
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Sharing our culture
We have been bringing the kids to Dessie Restaurant in Wheaton, MD since the first week of their arrival in the US. We used to stop there at least once monthly, sometimes twice, but we suddenly realized that it had been months since we had been there. We don’t go out to eat all that…