If you told me fifteen years ago that I would be going apple picking and frolicking around pumpkin patches, I would have laughed in your face. For a long period of my life, Fall wasn’t even a season I acknowledged (thank you, Florida). Then, I moved to the Northeast and I learned about pumpkin spice …
As some of you might know, we just started a long stretch of many Jewish holidays. The first one, Rosh Hashanah, is the Jewish New Year. Next week, there will be a fast as part of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. We were fortunate to be able to travel to South Florida to spend …
I picked this topic for the blog a few months ago when I was doing my content planning thinking that I would feel overwhelmed as summer came to a close and school was starting, not knowing what a crazy month August would be. It turns out it is a good follow-up to last week’s blog …
Talking about grief was not my intention for this week’s blog post but life is always throwing curveballs at us and I decided to break from my previously planned schedule and write about grief and loss. There is never really a good time to talk about grief, but there were too many untimely deaths in …
People ask me all the time, “how do you do it all?” The truth is I don’t. Some weeks, I am the best mom and don’t focus on work. Other weeks, I barely see my children. I have talked about mom guilt in the past but this blog post is about the next step. Once …
International Women’s Day is celebrated yearly on March 8. I always congratulate all my female family and friends. As I was getting ready to write the post for this week, I realized I didn’t know much of the history behind it. Before getting into this year’s theme which is shedding the spotlight on biases that …
I didn’t want to let February go by without highlighting a Black physician but this month almost got away from me! On this last day and hour of February, I want to introduce you to Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler. I hope you already knew about her but I didn’t. She is recognized for being the …
This post for everybody. It is not about being in a traditional relationship or in love. It is about engaging in diverse and meaningful connections with those around us. Before I started dating my current husband, I had pretty similar views to my previous partners. The same goes for my group of friends from college. …
This post was inspired by Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The last few weeks have been filled with lots of decisions to make that felt seemingly impossible and exhausting. You can probably imagine most of them were COVID-related. As the time got close to this holiday, I felt some shame while thinking about what this …
I don’t know about you but the first week of 2022 was a bit more exciting than what I was hoping for. As usual, I was glad I wrote a bunch of inspiring posts because I was all ready to quit 2022 three days into it. Whenever I felt down or hopeless, I just re-read …