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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...
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"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...
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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...
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Happy Halloween!
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sox + red = awesome
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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...
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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...
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place holder
There is a lot of goings on lately, and my anxiety level is High. Meanwhile, I’m grateful everyday for...
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happy ending
Tim says the things people tell me aren’t normal. My whole life strangers have told me secrets. Women in the...
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today
Being a mother of a (theoretical) biped is awesome, but since life isn’t a Lifetime movie Josie isn’t magically all...
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top of the world
It’s been a hard week, or rather; it has been a very emotional week. Today Josie was unable to...
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crystal ball
We’re living a very good news- bad news sort of life lately. The pendulum has been swinging so widely from...
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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...
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Play Ball
Tickets: $60 Canadian. New ballcap: $15 Canadian. Coke bigger than your head: $5 Canadian. Fourteen hours of hooting, hollering...
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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...
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something to talk about
Yesterday was our Early Intervention evaluation, and it went as well as I could have hoped. To sum up, a...
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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...
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sally brown
The J Bear has spent the last few months concentrating on growing hair. Now that she has (some) hair,...
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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...
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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,...
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breaking
Every year I make a resolution list of patients that I find challenging. I truly believe that it is impossible...
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break
I had a very bad day yesterday. Some days I don’t want to do this anymore. For the first time...
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happy new year!
Some new camera fun to start out the year. I hope everyone had a great night, and wish everyone...
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from the trenches
I’ve had no choice but to institute a mandatory vitamin C policy at work. Every morning I walk around the...
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merry christmas 2006
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yazmatazz
We adopted the Yaz from Animal Angels, a no kill shelter. He had been in the shelter for almost...
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flash happy
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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...
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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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enough said
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dear zachary
There are many, many good causes that you can donate to during the holiday season, but have yet one more...
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wow!
I’m really excited about the Christmas season this year, although I know it is still over Josie’s head. Holidays are...
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ice cream dreams
Tim took pictures of Josie at the supermarket to cheer me up when I was stuck at the hospital...
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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...
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bad
Vacation for a week generally means about a week of compensatory chaos at work, but it has settled down. And...
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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...
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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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monster in my house
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the turning point
Today I received some very overpriced (and French!) eye cream in the mail. I plan to use it along with...
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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...
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will and a way
Last night I started feeling queasy, and by this morning I was vomiting and miserable. So much for my run...
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day of miracles
Last night I hit my breaking point. I had been at my office for over ten hours, and was having...
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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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the muppet show
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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...
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lack of progress
I am STILL still here. My job continues to wear me out, but there are little glimmers here and there....
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only words
Monday night I was musing to Tim that the three day weekend had almost, almost, been enough. If I hadn’t...
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here
I have been in a funk, or a rut. Possibly I’ve been in both. It’s all good here though....
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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so precious to me
I have so much too say about what the honor of being Josie’s mother has meant to me. The...
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preview
Josie (and Tim) come to visit me on Tuesday when I’m at the office for twelve hours. It wasn’t...
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panic
About a week before Tim and I got married I realized that I hadn’t ordered flowers for the wedding. The...
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half full
It is late, and I am on call, and things go not so great. The hospital is busy, and full,...
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tempus
So, July is almost over and I’m not dead. So that’s good. I’ve decided to be more proactive about things...
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the little things
This past week has been what we call around these parts an ‘all the way bad" week. Work continues to...
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oppressed
I tore out of work at noon, and managed to spend most of the day at the MLB Fanfest...
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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...
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punctured
I’m OK, but there’s no doubt that July is a hard month for doctor types. My biggest challenge these days...
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Mystery Solved
You may not know this but I've had a song stuck in my head for almost 18 years. Sometime way...
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purely hypothetical question
Don’t tell, because I am terrified of the outright ridiculousness of thinking such a thing, but deep deep down...
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busy
Remind me again why I wanted that baby to crawl? Or be a doctor when I grew up? Also, after...
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commence operation baby daddy
It started innocently enough. Josie is still not crawling by the firm definition of the word, but has become suddenly...
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baby insurance
For weeks and weeks I have been struggling at work to keep up. I was the only doctor in...
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without feathers
When I was about nine years old I loved to watch older girls. I loved their clothes and nylons and...
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roll out the barrel
Josie was introduced to polka this weekend and loved it. It's seriously time for us to consider moving out...
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eye have issues
My two latest knitting obsessions are purses and toys. These both present challenges. The first challenge is I hate to...
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here she is
There are three clear reasons to love this picture. 1) My poor, poor Yinzer baby. There are forbears of...
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commercial break
I sure needed these last two days off. We were able to see friends and family, and most importantly, sleep....
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metaphor. ish.
Holy Cow. I often "joke" that it is not worth leaving town, because it is just too hard to catch...
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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,...
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meander
My neighbors have a boy baby a little over a month older than Josie. He is three pounds lighter and...
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what i already knew
OK, so Friday wasn’t the worst day ever, but it certainly was pretty awful. Some of the drama remains...
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smote.
Shall I tell you about my worst day ever? Or shall I just make a mental note, not to tempt...
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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...
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legacy
I won’t spend many hours this week being a doctor (relatively speaking, of course. I’ll still be working over thirty...
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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...
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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...
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happy easter
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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...
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josie's response to trying french fries for the first time
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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...
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vacation opener
The Pirates may not be off to a great start, but today was a breathtakingly beautiful April afternoon and...
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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...
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vacay day one
This, my friends, was the fifth weekend in a row that I spent at least one day in the hospital....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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gene angst
I am working this weekend, but tomorrow and Friday I have taken as vacation. It’s a good thing, because I...
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manic monday
This was a pity party type post (which is still squatting in the extended entry), but I decided to...
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wean angst
I’m not going to try and calculate the hours I spent at work this week. It was a lot,...
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are you happy now?
Are you, cruel internets? How many people have demanded that my giggling, smiling, good-natured daughter cry? We usually go...
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Origins
As far back as I can remember, my father has always had an odd fascination with genealogy. It's something that...
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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...
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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...
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unable to drown
I spend way too much time in my car. For instance, yesterday I drove the thirty minutes to the hospital...
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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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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.
- Brian Andreas
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