Last December, I wrote a blog post about travel hacks when traveling with kids within the USA and mostly short flights. We recently had the chance to travel to Argentina and enjoyed an 11 hour direct flight from JFK. I learned some new things that I wished I thought ahead of time, so I am …
This is the third and final blog post in my series of what originally started as winter soups to make in the Instant Pot. It was cold this weekend but this week will be ridiculously hot (at least in the Northeast US). I love to make white bean chicken chili in my Instant Pot but …
If you didn’t know, this week is National Doctors Day, a holiday celebrated yearly on March 30. I was not aware of this date for some time and even thought it was a new addition to the calendar. It turns out it has been around since 1933 when a physician’s wife in Georgia (Eudora Brown …
Today’s blog post is a first for Smart Mama, MD! I will be reviewing a colleague’s recently published children’s book, called Baby, MD. I read it with both my fresh 5 year old-boy and my almost 7 year-old girl and they both enjoyed it thoroughly but for different reasons. The first thing that really caught …
I couldn’t have a winter soup series without attempting to make my most favorite soup, which I eat year round and not just in the fall: butternut squash. I ended up making my own recipe and it can be made vegan if you would like. If you are able to buy the uncooked butternut squash …
Most of you probably know that March is Women’s History Month and that March 8 is International Women’s Day. I try to write something relevant or in honor of this month during one of my March blog posts but this year I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. At first I thought I could …
Now that Winter has returned to the Northeast, I have decided to try making a bunch of new soups with the Instant Pot. I had a bag of split peas left from the last time I made soup with a Dutch Oven and this was so much easier! I will be featuring a new soup …
I have been featuring important Black women physicians on my blog for the last few years to honor Black History Month and 2023 is no different! I am taking the opportunity every year to learn about someone I didn’t know about and this year I came upon Dr. Renee Rosalind Jenkins during my research. She …
A younger colleague recently asked me how I knew I wanted to marry my husband. My initial answer was that I didn’t at first. My next answer was that at some point I just decided I wanted to. Movies and books make us think that most of us will “just know” when the right person …
Last week was National Women Physicians Day and I wanted to take the time to share a Tedx talk by physician, best selling author, and leadership coach (amongst other things), Dr. Tammie Chang. I first became acquainted with Dr. Chang after being invited to join the Facebook group she co-founded, Pink Coat, MD. I was …