My top 10 from 2017.

Shown above: real life picture of me wanting to be a doctor circa 2004. The interesting thing is that my real life white coat and scrubs look this baggy still... As we wrap up 2017, I feel compelled to summarize this year as we've had just an enormous amount of change...

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A Tribute to Tony Kraus: Three Key Lessons his Life Teaches us

A former student reached out to me a few weeks ago to ask for advice. He told me that he had dropped his finance major and switched into the college of education to prepare for a career teaching social studies. My heart, of course, swelled, and it had...

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Christmas at the Whitehouse

It's finally after Thanksgiving, which means people can stop shaming everyone else for just trying to be in the holiday spirit and decorating for Christmas. One of my favorite Christmas traditions with Parker has been our ornament collection. Our first married Christmas, we got home from Thanksgiving in...

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Candy Epidemic

(Pictured above: a bunch of fools I miss so dearly and a classically out of focus picture brought to you by Canon Rebel T3) Updates on my life: It's been awhile, friends. I've been meaning to post for awhile, but it's honestly, I have had some serious writer's block. I'm unsure...

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'Busyness', Bro Hugs, & Male Bonding:

Padfoot woke me up this morning at 6:00 with his 9th vomit in 2 days (this is totally normal for him (¯\_(ツ)_/¯). I hopped out of bed, started hot water for coffee, and cleaned up his mess (in that order). Annie was already gone for another day of...

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Updated: The elusive French macarons.

I've updated this post! I recently re-achieved a consistent, solid macaron since moving to NC. Previously I'd been struggling with hollow, fragile macarons that looked and tasted fine, but honestly weren't quite the same. In light of this, I've since made 3 batches over the last 4 days -...

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Update on my life.

Hey, all. It's been a very long time since I've posted. The realness of residency finally hit, and it hit me pretty hard. Here are some updates on my life: If you've followed my posts on Instagram, you're likely updated on Padfoot's life. We recently had a small...

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How to do Disney in less than $1500

Ok full disclosure, the cost was probably closer to $1600 but this also included the most expensive ticket admissions: Harry Potter World. More on that later... While we are still on the high from our joyous, childish adventures in the happiest place on earth, I wanted to share...

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Keeping up with old friends.

Hi, everyone! It's August (I can't believe that time is flying so fast), and I'm finally beginning to feel adjusted to this new North Carolina life. We have some friends we regularly hang out with and are actually able to make at least one or two restaurant recommendations...

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Wilmington + Carolina Beach [Part 2]

Parker and I really enjoy balancing our beach vacations with a little "city" life. The most obvious solution on our most recent trip was to walk around quaint downtown Wilmington. I can't say I knew what to expect - typically everywhere we go we rate on a scale...

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