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Balance Found
At least once a week I tell Randy that I cannot believe this is now my life. Our life. Knowing that that which feeds my soul, what I...
Dionne Mills
Feb 4, 20223 min read
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And to think
This past week has been filled with lots of OR time for gynecological surgeries; operations that I had gladly said goodbye to in exchange...
Dionne Mills
Feb 4, 20222 min read
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The Sillik Kids Reflect and Look Forward.
We have been in New Zealand for about 5 months. Micah, Makayla and Kai went from online school in the US to zoom learning here to finally...
Dionne Mills
Jan 30, 20221 min read
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The Kids are alright
Sometimes, every so often, I feel a bit unsettled about how well the kids have adapted to their new environment. When I see how much...
Dionne Mills
Jan 19, 20222 min read
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I don't do New Years Resolutions
I'm not writing to rain on any parades. I am consistent in my policy to not make New Years Resolutions because I have always seen how...
Dionne Mills
Dec 31, 20212 min read
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A Black hair victory
In my post titled "Black Hair on the Move", I discussed the steps that I had to take to prepare myself to be self sufficient with my hair...
Dionne Mills
Dec 28, 20211 min read
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When vision becomes reality
I have a picture from Cathedral Cove in the Coromandel peninsula on my blog page. I picked it because it was majestic and beautiful and...
Dionne Mills
Dec 26, 20212 min read
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The joy that comes....
I am always in the exercise of introspection. Knowing oneself is important to staying on the right course and to being successful. Often...
Dionne Mills
Dec 10, 20212 min read
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Like Christmas came early!
On November 22nd, our belongings that had arrived to New Zealand about three weeks prior, finally arrived to our house. That morning, the...
Dionne Mills
Nov 26, 20212 min read
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Imagine
Last year, I transitioned from private practice as a generalist OBGYN to Hospitalist work. Instead of working 5 days a week and at least...
Dionne Mills
Nov 26, 20213 min read
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Twelve years ago
I don't know what it is about birthdays that makes one reminisce. Twelve years ago was a year filled with so many milestones in my life....
Dionne Mills
Nov 19, 20211 min read
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Things that remind me of home
Nothing brings me back to my childhood in Trinidad like hanging up clothes to dry on a line. I remember watching my mother hand wash...
Dionne Mills
Nov 10, 20212 min read
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Oh, what a relief
I will try to make this post brief. I almost considered explaining all of this in a video but I think I can make this succinct. Over the...
Dionne Mills
Oct 30, 20212 min read
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At the end is a beginning
Every time we set a goal for ourselves and we reach it, we quickly learn that the destination has opened up new opportunities for growth....
Dionne Mills
Oct 14, 20212 min read
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When life can be a vacation
There are three very nice beaches within 8 minutes from our house. Although I had wanted to leave the US for years, Randy and I were also...
Dionne Mills
Oct 8, 20211 min read
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I am approaching mid-life, but I am not in crisis
So much can be said about 2020 and 2021. In every aspect of my life and in every aspect of the world, we can collectively use words like...
Dionne Mills
Oct 6, 20213 min read
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All the feels
Tonight I sit upstairs in my bed listening to Sarah Brightman sing "Dust in the wind" and I am overcome with emotion as I reflect on...
Dionne Mills
Oct 1, 20212 min read
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Children at play
Behind our new house is a Reserve. We can walk over to a playground that we can see from our house. Today, the kids got to explore for...
Dionne Mills
Oct 1, 20211 min read
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Eachother is all we need
I wish I had on me, the picture of Randy 16 years ago, helping me take out my braids. It is in a photo album on its way across the...
Dionne Mills
Sep 25, 20211 min read
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First day of school... kind of..
So, Auckland has been allowed to move down to Level 3 lockdown as of 11:59 pm tonight. Our cases are continuing to drop and more...
Dionne Mills
Sep 20, 20212 min read
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The love of medicine
Back in the OR after weeks off while moving countries and being in Managed Isolation. After years of getting into a good routine with...
Dionne Mills
Sep 15, 20212 min read
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This Island Girl and the Sea
Today, despite the on again off again rains, I compelled Randy to indulge me in a drive to a nearby beach. We hadn't ventured very far...
Dionne Mills
Sep 8, 20211 min read
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To the left to the left
When Randy and I and our two eldest children (I was pregnant with our third at the time) visited my homeland of Trinidad years ago for my...
Dionne Mills
Sep 3, 20212 min read
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Making Progress within a lockdown
"Organization is the Key to Success". I used to make my younger brother say this when he was in Secondary School. Many people ask me how...
Dionne Mills
Sep 1, 20212 min read
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