My digital diary has a feature where they send notifications or email with reminders of entries that you made on the anniversary of the...

OK, I apologize that this post was drafted in March and sat untouched due to me being busy with work, family, and creating all of my...

I remember all too clearly, on a visceral level, the alarms that were going off in my head and my heart and my soul during the time that...

On one of my first days back to a full work schedule I was chatting with a colleague of mine. We were discussing our Christmas holiday...

Since arriving to New Zealand, the kids have had multiple growth spurts. They are growing into themselves, and it's been fun and...

Another trip up north to the Bay of Islands (3.5 hours north of our home in Auckland). This time with my father and stepmother in tow....

I wrote this in March of 2022 and it sat in drafts. I don't know why I never posted it, but it is too good to not share---------- I...

Four Summers. I cannot believe that it has been four summers that my family and I have had the privilege of spending in beautiful...

I do not do New Years resolutions but I do a lot of periodic reflections, which are often triggered around milestones. The other day I...

One of my patients asked me the Monday after the election if I was glad that I was here and not in the US right now. I gave her a...

It has been a heavy week. The feeling of fear, anger, frustration and foreboding I felt in 2016 has returned, but this time so much is...

Three Years. Three Years in Aotearoa. I am someone who takes the time to reflect at anniversaries/milestones. I look back and forward...

I have not been able to keep up with the speed at which my children's bodies are evolving over the past year. Some of them are no longer...

I am the oldest of 5. My youngest sister, 10 years my junior, graduated from nursing school in April after 3 years of intensive study....

I have been told recently by different people that my blog entries have been missed. I knew that people were following them but didn't...

A couple years ago when my daughter fell off her scooter and chipped her tooth, we went to the ED for free and received an ACC claim...

I think that it was when I worked at a battered women's shelter back in college that I realized how passionate I was about women's health...

As I mentioned in a previous post, I have been disconnected from social media for about a month and a half now. The other day I briefly...

Me on a beach in Trinidad I have been craving the ocean since the moment my family moved us from Trinidad.  Lakes could never cut it. I...

It's been about a month since I uninstalled Facebook and Instagram from my phone. I have become increasingly overwhelmed by my empathic...

On October 7th, I turned 42. My amazing husband and children surprised me with a weekend of pampering and relaxation at a luxury hotel in...

One thing I didn't like about being an immigrant in the United States was the fact that during the many years it took for me to become a...

I have readers who are physicians practicing in the United States. I am often asked to speak on certain differences with how medicine is...

In 2019 I decided to change the way I worked in the US. As I've described in previous posts, the life of an OBGYN working in private...