Until Next Time

I made it! It’s been exactly two years since I started blogging weekly. Not that this was any sort of contest but I just wanted to say that I win. I win so freakin’ much! (To be clear, I win against the old non-posting-blogger me, not anyone else. Also, am not calling anyone a loser so please don’t cyberstalk me to send electronic dead roses.) But you know what they say, “The end is nigh.” Okay, nobody really says that anymore because it’s not 1692. (I don’t really know what happened in 1692 but it was a really long time ago and I assume people back then said stuff like that all the time.) Anyway, the end is nigh near. Actually, it’s

Crushing It: The Turning Point Series

I know I’ve broken a few souls in my lifetime. No, not soul-breaking as in my karaoke singing dissolving ones will to live, or even like breaking someone’s heart. Although selfishly, I would hope somewhere out there, I meant enough to someone for them to have felt ‘heartbroken’ by my absence in their life (is that sadistic?). What I actually mean when I say breaking someone’s soul is the act of

I, Hamster.

“I can’t do this,” I tearfully cried.

I had been back to work for exactly two hours and 30 minutes (after an 18-month maternity leave) when one of the clinicians had asked me to

Sucks to Suck

There are some things I never take for granted. Some things or phases in my life I know I’ll never have to survive through again. For instance, every August whenever I find myself driving by a school, the only thought that undoubtedly runs through my mind is this:

Family Matters

As close as I am with my family, we’d never so much as entertained the idea of going away together- until this year. And that’s exactly what we did. My sisters and I (along with our kids and husbands)