Its’s Saturday! Is anyone working in the garden this weekend? How are you resting this weekend? Love to see what you are up to. This is a tour of the community garden my mom takes part in. She has a small section that she tends to. We made a great #moroccanfood tagine with carrots 🥕 and squash. […]
Reflections of a mentor….Time has shown me one thing. When a clinician in medicine loses hope, there have already been many moments in time that someone could have offered support, direction, empathic listening, and kindling of hope. Largely those moments can go ignored by the people around them. And each passing event can lead to […]
How do you build resilience and boundaries in medicine without becoming prickly to others? Maybe you don’t. Let me explain. It seems paradoxical for women in medicine because if we create a boundary, it is viewed as something that needs to be managed, shifted, or adapted to others’ expectations. And as a result, women in […]
What is one vegetable that people have eaten canned but rarely fresh? Since it is #MeatlessMonday, let’s talk about artichokes. What is your favorite way to prepare and eat them? In all seriousness, one of my favorite vegetables is artichoke, and my preferred way to eat them is to steam and then grill though steaming and […]
Edible flowers SPRINKLES are something you have been waiting for I am sharing about the spring blooms this week and how this can translate to edible flower sprinkles. 🌸 A relatively well-known fact is that sprinkles don’t add too much to our quality of life. And yet I absolutely am fascinated with them… I mean […]
That inner critic though… 😒 Disney Pixar’s latest movie, Luca has an interesting motivational message in its refrain of “Silenzio Bruno!” In the movie, Alberto tells Luca to repeat this to himself to silence his inner negative voice. Sometimes that inner critic is just sooooo loud. I think that can be especially true on social media: […]