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Sea Island Creativity Conference
Every January, my husband and I look forward to attending the Creativity Conference at The Cloister at Sea Island, Georgia. First of all, you can’t beat the surroundings. The Cloister is timeless and elegant, and the surrounding lush gardens help you forget it is the...
Being Wowed by Janisse Ray
Janisse Ray, (https://www.janisseray.com/) best-selling author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and other books, gave a talk and book-reading at Atlanta History Center, and I was mesmerized. Her latest book, Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans, a...
Taking Care of Strangers
It was sometime in the 1980s. Three of us young women doctors were driving back from a day at the beach. Still sandy and sunscreen covered, we were dressed in our bathing suits and cute beach coverups. Near dusk, on a country...
What a Great Compliment!
I’m so excited to have my blog article “On Call with a Four-Year-Old” published on the respected site DoctorsonSocialMedia.com (also known as SoMeDocs). Dana Corriel from SoMeDocs was nice enough to say positive things about my writing. Of course, now I’m all fired up to write more! See this link to read the article.
On Call with a Four-year-old
In spite of days of planning, all my complex backup plans had fallen through. My husband was on a business trip. My in-laws were on vacation. My nanny was caring for her elderly mother overnight. The sitter service had come up empty-handed. No one on my pediatric team...
Meeting Author Kimberly Brock
I had the chance to meet Kimberly Brock and hear about her new book The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare. This novel takes place in coastal North Carolina and Savannah, Georgia. It is set in the post WWII years and has to do with the possible descendants of Eleanor Dare, a...
Getting Ready for my Interview with KevinMD
I found myself surprisingly nervous the morning of the interview. Why, I wondered? I have lectured to large groups of people for years. I knew my material. Perhaps because it was more about me this time, and not medical information. I wrote an article about my first...