This is an interesting article about how peer evaluations of female residents go down after pregnancy, while evaluations of men who have ...

Yesterday, I saw a post on Facebook about the lottery for full day kindergarten in my town.  And suddenly, all the fear I'd felt a year ...

I get really annoyed by those people who declare, "I only read non-fiction." And it's ok, if that's you, but don't say...

Being a working mom who's also a physician isn't easy, as most of us know.  KC made a blog about it.  I have now written a fictional...

"We have a problem," my daughter's kindergarten teacher recently told me during a parent teacher conference. "What...

I'm going to come out and say it: It stinks making plans with other mothers of young kids. They are never free.  It's either dat...

Recently, I had the opportunity to teach my younger daughter’s preschool class about being a doctor. Sometimes I think that part of the rea...

I apologize in advance that this story is a little bit TMI. Then again, I live in a world where about a third of the time, a cat or a child...

The teacher at my younger daughter's preschool says that they're going to start a unit on different careers, and she asked me if I c...

I have a confession to make. It's a secret that I keep for as long as I possibly can from people that I meet, and I feel dread in the pi...

For years, my older daughter has done dance as her extracurricular. It was easy. Every Saturday afternoon, I would take both kids over to th...

In case you haven't heard, the WHO recently said that processed meats are in the same category of carcinogens as smoking cigarettes and ...

One of the downsides of having kids that are a little bit further apart in age, is that it may very well require separate drop offs and pick...

It recently occurred to me that both my kids are getting to an age where staying home all day is not really an option. Whether she likes it ...

My daughter Mel has one of those annoying friends at school who always has a bunch of things to say to me when I pick up my daughter. Before...

There are only three things in this world that are certain: death, taxes, and babies. Nobody knows this truth better than Emily McCoy, a t...

In the past, I've made several attempts to meditate regularly. But I've always failed for the following reasons: -- me...

I recently recommended my mother read a book called big little lies by Liane Moriarty because I thought that was one of the best books I hav...

My older daughter has always been an amazing eater.  She eats her fruits, her vegetables, her meats, her starches, and of course everything ...

I'm sure almost every physician has experienced patients complimenting them, or more likely complaining about, how long young they look....