My mother told me when we were embarking upon Dental School and New York City that this journey in our life would really only be a blip in time, retrospectively. A small star in the galaxy of our days in this life. At the time, it...
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It was nearly three years ago exactly that we were preparing to move our family to New York City. I remember how I felt about leaving our cozy little town chalk full of family and support network. It wasn't exactly terror, it wasn't even completely...
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Often, when I think about how different our lives are now than they were in the Bay Area, I immediately think about taxis, subways and grocery shopping. It's just what images pop into my head whenever I'm reminded about our transition from life in California....
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This morning I woke up to the soft tweeting of birds and the crisp, fresh air that engulfs my mother's home that sits at the base of the Santa Cruz mountains. As I type this, the kids are in the back yard playing, Beau is...
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We're back in the city after an exciting, relaxing and restorative vacation back home to Northern California. Nothing like traveling back in time to land far, far away to gain a little perspective. Traveling to the airport and across the country alone with the kids was...
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Coming from a suburban town in the Bay Area- certainly not desolate, but a very tight-knit community, one of the things I feared the most about living in New York City was living in that extreme opposite; Sidewalks full of strangers. At home in California, I...
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I've fallen deeply in love with New York City. I feel the butterflies buzzing around in my stomach even when I have to navigate the mundane routine. Yet everyone knows that when it's true love, the words "mundane" and "routine" cease to exist. This is...
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When I was seven, I moved with my mom and my sister from the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio to the Bay Area, California. I was the cool kid in my hometown, a fantastic student (I was the Student of the Day nearly every single day),...
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We are here in California for the second time since moving to NYC in August. Seems like a lot, doesn't it? It actually felt like a lot during our travels. We were so excited about coming for the holidays, but the family drama and the...
ReadWhew. Well, we're back in the city and honestly it feels amazing. This trip back to California was just what I needed. We missed daddy terribly, but it was good for him to put all of his energy into his first midterm (which he got...
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