The Write Profile: a writing and family blog.
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Move-in Ready
They’re snooping. I want them to, but I thought they’d go big picture, take in the bones of the place, the size of the family room, the light that fills the front of the house. Instead, the woman randomly stops to gawk…
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Balance of Nature
When the doctor guided Josue into the world, his grandmother’s face crinkled in glee. “We’re fifteen now!” she squealed…
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Here They Kill the Mustard by May
While her husband drove, Margaret kept her eyes closed, trying to identify each roll to the right, each jostle to the left along West Road. She had guessed the first curve was the bend around the Tudor house. The one being gutted behind a green privacy fence. “Privacy? Everyone knows what they’re doing,”
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Vacancy
In the apartment, we only had a living room. Now the burbs have gifted us a family room, too. Another unnecessity, like the fireplace that will stand sterile in 70-degree winters…
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Moving to Survive: The Morpho Butterflies of Panama
Four hundred feet above the column of ships waiting to enter the canal, we crossed the Bridge of the Americas to begin our winter escape in earnest. As Jeff and I climbed through steep Caribbean pines, rolled past arching ferns, and dropped into the sea of airborne palms in Almirante, I marveled that the rich…
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My Mom Taught Me How To Spend Time
Featured in Her View From Home
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My latest article (found in The Huffington Post)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pregnancy-hyperemesis-gravidarum-doctor_n_5f873830c5b6c4bb54722a37
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I Said ‘Yes’ to Everything & Now I Am Glad I Did
Gathered on any random Saturday night before the pandemic, my friends and I would often recount our day. My tale usually involved our family of four bouncing from activity to activity like human pinballs caroming from one corner of the county to another…
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What We Really Learned during Distance Learning
By March, the 2019-2020 school year was humming along nicely for my sons, Devin, a kindergartener, and Thomas, a second grader. They were happy in environments that challenged and encouraged them…
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All I Want Right Now is a Door with a Lock
Distance learning resumed two weeks ago, but I realized on day one what I will need to survive it: a door with a lock. Not an easy-twist knob lock. I want a padlock. A hardened steel padlock.
Got any book recommendations?