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cough *june* cough Um,see any names you recognize here? I can't tell you how excited I am about this. If you are...

Read this entry "hi whale! nice to meet you!" I used to travel a lot. My passport has a lot of stamps, and I have a lot of...

Read this entry everything's better down where it's wetter First off, I didn't mean to sound quite so maudlin. I know how lucky I am, most days. And I...

Read this entry Happy Halloween! .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption {...

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Read this entry the chameleon was black in the long winter night As I was walking out of the house this morning I realized I wasn't completely sure that I had brushed...

Read this entry grace is just the measure of a fall I’ve been really struggling these last few weeks. Josie continues to get stronger, but the progress is so slow. Some...

Read this entry place holder There is a lot of goings on lately, and my anxiety level is High. Meanwhile, I’m grateful everyday for...

Read this entry happy ending Tim says the things people tell me aren’t normal. My whole life strangers have told me secrets. Women in the...

Read this entry today Being a mother of a (theoretical) biped is awesome, but since life isn’t a Lifetime movie Josie isn’t magically all...

Read this entry top of the world It’s been a hard week, or rather; it has been a very emotional week. Today Josie was unable to...

Read this entry crystal ball We’re living a very good news- bad news sort of life lately. The pendulum has been swinging so widely from...

Read this entry i know that it will break your heart the way things are Boy, did we need a vacation. For almost a solid week I just enjoyed my family. I remembered how fortunate...

Read this entry Play Ball Tickets: $60 Canadian. New ballcap: $15 Canadian. Coke bigger than your head: $5 Canadian. Fourteen hours of hooting, hollering...

Read this entry and we love canadian bacon Back in the pre-Bear days we had been known to drive the 588 miles roundtrip to see a game at...

Read this entry something to talk about Yesterday was our Early Intervention evaluation, and it went as well as I could have hoped. To sum up, a...

Read this entry hormones in the house I’ve mentioned this before, but for the past decade or so I’ve been firmly against PMS. And because I am...

Read this entry sally brown The J Bear has spent the last few months concentrating on growing hair. Now that she has (some) hair,...

Read this entry the gorilla in the room Last week I said to myself that if I would do anything to help Josie, and it was such a...

Read this entry it is too much, let me sum up At least it is baseball season. We’re all still alive and kicking and relatively happy here. I’ve enjoyed the break,...

Read this entry breaking Every year I make a resolution list of patients that I find challenging. I truly believe that it is impossible...

Read this entry break I had a very bad day yesterday. Some days I don’t want to do this anymore. For the first time...

Read this entry happy new year! Some new camera fun to start out the year. I hope everyone had a great night, and wish everyone...

Read this entry from the trenches I’ve had no choice but to institute a mandatory vitamin C policy at work. Every morning I walk around the...

Read this entry merry christmas 2006

Read this entry yazmatazz We adopted the Yaz from Animal Angels, a no kill shelter. He had been in the shelter for almost...

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Read this entry dedicated to the one i love Yesterday we had our first swab for influenza come back positive. School’s still in session, and it’s a few days...

Read this entry bad cop I think of myself as a ruggedly healthy person, but it’s been a rough run this past week or two....

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Read this entry dear zachary There are many, many good causes that you can donate to during the holiday season, but have yet one more...

Read this entry wow! I’m really excited about the Christmas season this year, although I know it is still over Josie’s head. Holidays are...

Read this entry ice cream dreams Tim took pictures of Josie at the supermarket to cheer me up when I was stuck at the hospital...

Read this entry An open letter to Melissa & Doug Prompted by the recent bad, bad toy madness, I sent several copies of the below email to various points of...

Read this entry bad Vacation for a week generally means about a week of compensatory chaos at work, but it has settled down. And...

Read this entry Songs In The Key Of Ween 2 It's a windy, cold and rainy night here in Pittsburgh and the annual screening of Night Of The Living Dead...

Read this entry vacation getaway holiday 10/26/06 lake owasco, ny. 1st family vacation! Originally uploaded by wordsforsnow. My birthday began on Sunday with my alarm...

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Read this entry the turning point Today I received some very overpriced (and French!) eye cream in the mail. I plan to use it along with...

Read this entry don't cry for me josie-tina We didn’t decide to teach Josie sign language so she would get better SAT scores, it was more of a...

Read this entry will and a way Last night I started feeling queasy, and by this morning I was vomiting and miserable. So much for my run...

Read this entry day of miracles Last night I hit my breaking point. I had been at my office for over ten hours, and was having...

Read this entry there's always next year A few days ago I saw a patient who said everything very very fast, and then promptly apologized. I kept...

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Read this entry insult to injury Being a Sox fan has been rough the last couple months and it's certainly not getting better anytime soon. It's...

Read this entry lack of progress I am STILL still here. My job continues to wear me out, but there are little glimmers here and there....

Read this entry only words Monday night I was musing to Tim that the three day weekend had almost, almost, been enough. If I hadn’t...

Read this entry here I have been in a funk, or a rut. Possibly I’ve been in both. It’s all good here though....

Read this entry it shows no sign of stopping I love Pittsburgh, I do, but it’s a football town. A football town with a National League baseball team, so...

Read this entry operation homebody, take two 8/20/06 center for creative play Originally uploaded by wordsforsnow. The thing is, the whole Gymboree experience really upset me....

Read this entry can't sleep. clowns and so forth. It struck me during Josie’s birthday party that she if she is no longer a baby, then it is time...

Read this entry josie's big fat italian birthday 8/3/06 josie's big fat italian birthday party Originally uploaded by wordsforsnow. Josie is one year old. She isn’t a...

Read this entry so precious to me I have so much too say about what the honor of being Josie’s mother has meant to me. The...

Read this entry preview Josie (and Tim) come to visit me on Tuesday when I’m at the office for twelve hours. It wasn’t...

Read this entry panic About a week before Tim and I got married I realized that I hadn’t ordered flowers for the wedding. The...

Read this entry half full It is late, and I am on call, and things go not so great. The hospital is busy, and full,...

Read this entry tempus So, July is almost over and I’m not dead. So that’s good. I’ve decided to be more proactive about things...

Read this entry the little things This past week has been what we call around these parts an ‘all the way bad" week. Work continues to...

Read this entry oppressed I tore out of work at noon, and managed to spend most of the day at the MLB Fanfest...

Read this entry take me out to the ballgame I’m not really worried I have hepatitis. The intern was wielding the scalpel on a rather large abscess on a...

Read this entry punctured I’m OK, but there’s no doubt that July is a hard month for doctor types. My biggest challenge these days...

Read this entry Mystery Solved You may not know this but I've had a song stuck in my head for almost 18 years. Sometime way...

Read this entry purely hypothetical question Don’t tell, because I am terrified of the outright ridiculousness of thinking such a thing, but deep deep down...

Read this entry busy Remind me again why I wanted that baby to crawl? Or be a doctor when I grew up? Also, after...

Read this entry commence operation baby daddy It started innocently enough. Josie is still not crawling by the firm definition of the word, but has become suddenly...

Read this entry baby insurance For weeks and weeks I have been struggling at work to keep up. I was the only doctor in...

Read this entry without feathers When I was about nine years old I loved to watch older girls. I loved their clothes and nylons and...

Read this entry roll out the barrel Josie was introduced to polka this weekend and loved it. It's seriously time for us to consider moving out...

Read this entry eye have issues My two latest knitting obsessions are purses and toys. These both present challenges. The first challenge is I hate to...

Read this entry here she is There are three clear reasons to love this picture. 1) My poor, poor Yinzer baby. There are forbears of...

Read this entry commercial break I sure needed these last two days off. We were able to see friends and family, and most importantly, sleep....

Read this entry metaphor. ish. Holy Cow. I often "joke" that it is not worth leaving town, because it is just too hard to catch...

Read this entry where the wild things were We've already established that travelling with an infant takes organization, promptness, flexibility (both with situations and of the body) and,...

Read this entry meander My neighbors have a boy baby a little over a month older than Josie. He is three pounds lighter and...

Read this entry what i already knew OK, so Friday wasn’t the worst day ever, but it certainly was pretty awful. Some of the drama remains...

Read this entry smote. Shall I tell you about my worst day ever? Or shall I just make a mental note, not to tempt...

Read this entry i mean after our wedding, and the day josie was born, and the day the sox won the series, and just a few other days. Shall I tell you about my best day ever? It started with me taking the day off, after a quiet...

Read this entry legacy I won’t spend many hours this week being a doctor (relatively speaking, of course. I’ll still be working over thirty...

Read this entry who am i and what did i do with the old suzie? Life goes on about the same here, with work and home and my family, but there is one difference...

Read this entry we'll end up sitting on a rainbow Yesterday was our wedding anniversary. I have a lot a schoompy things to say about Tim, but as of...

Read this entry happy easter

Read this entry dad is great. gives us chocolate cake. Day three of vacation brought the Great Knitting Tour of Pittsburgh. Basically, I bribed the family with good food and...

Read this entry josie's response to trying french fries for the first time

Read this entry If people asked us, "Can you speak in rhinoceros?" We'd say, "Of courserous, can't you?" Have I ever confessed that I have the world’s most useless undergraduate degree? With a major in Zoology and a...

Read this entry vacation opener The Pirates may not be off to a great start, but today was a breathtakingly beautiful April afternoon and...

Read this entry there should be knitting personal ads knittish behavior over the past year or so Originally uploaded by wordsforsnow. Since I left my office yesterday I...

Read this entry vacay day one This, my friends, was the fifth weekend in a row that I spent at least one day in the hospital....

Read this entry even though we ain't got money I’ve been so busy that it’s been tough to update, because my life is all work or the precious...

Read this entry i like jbear and i cannot lie Wednesday is girl night here. Tim's off being a rockstar, so after a sensible baby dinner Josie and I hunkered...

Read this entry inquiring minds want to know My day off was lovely, even though I felt so guilty when I left the house this morning I started...

Read this entry gene angst I am working this weekend, but tomorrow and Friday I have taken as vacation. It’s a good thing, because I...

Read this entry manic monday This was a pity party type post (which is still squatting in the extended entry), but I decided to...

Read this entry wean angst I’m not going to try and calculate the hours I spent at work this week. It was a lot,...

Read this entry are you happy now? Are you, cruel internets? How many people have demanded that my giggling, smiling, good-natured daughter cry? We usually go...

Read this entry Origins As far back as I can remember, my father has always had an odd fascination with genealogy. It's something that...

Read this entry bear in her natural environment Eh, it's been a bit since I posted the gratuitous baby picture. The Pooh pajamas kill me. As does...

Read this entry eye of the tiger I’ve been avoiding the computer, but not for reasons you may think. Last Tuesday night I developed new floaters in...

Read this entry unable to drown I spend way too much time in my car. For instance, yesterday I drove the thirty minutes to the hospital...

Read this entry Day By Day There's been a lot happening around here in the last couple weeks and Suzie asked that I thank everyone for...

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Inspiration I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.

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