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A month ago, my wife headed over to a friend’s home for a book club for mothers from the local elementary school, leaving me on dad duty with the kids. I reached out to a fellow father in similar straits, and invited him to bring his kids over for a casual taco night and playdate at our place. After dinner, …
Today marks my 12th year of marriage. It’s our Silk Anniversary, according to those who would use our partnership milestone as a marketing opportunity for personal commercial gain. My wife is quirky – her mind runs at a mile a minute, and sometimes she can’t stop herself from analyzing a problem. She’s a perpetual optimizer and a master logistician. She …
As a high school student, I was curious (double entendre entirely intentional). I read to escape from my safe suburban bubble and for exposure to new ideas. When I found a concept that rocked my world and challenged my assumptions, I sought other curious souls to share my excitement with. My focus was directed just beyond my current horizon. I …
We spent this past weekend in San Francisco, at a friend of my wife’s 50th birthday party. He’s a sweet and thoughtful guy, and as part of the festivities we met up for lunch with a handful of my wife’s college friends and enjoyed a middle-aged version of “The Breakfast Club.” Accomplished professionals gathered around the table like a professional …
I’ve never been a manly man – I’m the Michael Cera of physician finance bloggers. I sang a capella and participated in the annual high school musical. I never cared for ESPN, and my final year playing in a league was as a t-ball player. If I go a week without shaving, I resemble the Latvian exchange student who probably …
As I write this, I’ve spent two of the last three weeks alternating shifts at the bedside of a family member in the ICU who suffered complications following a high-risk surgery. It’s been brutal for everyone, most of all the spouse of the patient. This couple met in their teens, and just celebrated 51 years of marriage. The patient narrowly …
Don’t Underestimate Life’s Value With A Disability I wrote an essay in college exploring the ethics of using novel DNA screening technology to determine if a fetus had Down Syndrome. As an exercise, I tried to write it from a utilitarian perspective – how does one evaluate what does the most good for the greatest number of people? Was this …
My mom and perhaps the one other regular reader of this blog may have noticed I haven’t posted in a few weeks. December was a brutal month – my wife and I spent much of it either out of state in the ICU at the bedside of a critically ill family member or back at home indirectly supporting that family …
I was recently entrusted to read a friend’s memoir about coping with his wife’s major unexpected health crisis one year into their marriage. Spoiler alert – she survived, they remain together, and her recovery continues to make strides three years later. My friend describes, among many other things, the experience of being disappointed by friends he considered intimates who seemed …
Years ago, I bought an album because the title caught my eye: Some People Have Real Problems. I was browsing used CDs in a music store back when both of those existed, and I felt the universe trying to restore perspective to my personal pity party. Fast forward a decade, and I had fallen off the wagon again into whining …