I’ve been quiet. Two reasons: we’ve been sick in our house and I didn’t like the posts I’d written. It’s sunny in Seattle today. This changes everything for those of us who inhabit this part of the globe. It is goodness. I’m finally feeling more than just battery powered. So I’ll be speaking up again. […]
National Day Of Listening
Today is being offered up as a day to set aside for listening. Just after a day of thankfulness. This is kind of a nice one-two punch. Especially when we’re often around extended family on this particular Friday on the calendar. I’d not heard of this until 10am today when NPR posted this on Facebook. […]
If It Were My Child: No Benadryl For The Plane
The holidays are here. Someone just plopped thanksgiving in my to-do list. I like it. Celebrating with family and friends is one yummy thing in life even in the face of family dynamics-drama. I know it doesn’t feel yummy for everyone. I’m not trying to sound Pollyanna-ey. I’ve had the dark years of holidays, too. When the […]
Verbatim: Fastballs In The Exam Room
Verbatim: a repeating entry of things overheard while taking care of kids in my clinic. One of the best parts of my job is coming to know the families I care for. It sounds trite. It’s true. Over the few years in practice, they have come to know my style, I suppose. I’m direct. I […]
Moving Day – The Most Dangerous Day Of The Week
My story of 9 stitches, 2 parents who feel as deflated, flat and small as the bottom of your worn shoe, a near 3-year-old boy, and 1 orange Popsicle. This is about our mistakes and the dangers of the events that followed moving day in my world, October 31, 2009. But let’s go back in […]
Parents Just Want To Do What Is Right
This blog caters to one principle I’ve learned along the way: Parents just want to do what is right. The desperate love we have for our children can shock us into good and sometimes bad decisions. I believe parents search for and sincerely desire simple answers to the How-What-Why–Who, the essence of doing right for […]
