Wow, I’m exhausted!  I spent all day with about 300 children.  Every year I judge a Lego-League competition, and today was the day!  I was fortunate enough to see the research presentation of a number of teams, on the topic of “smart moves” which involved transportation safety, efficiency and innovation.  And so that was my [...]

I’m writing this a day late because I worked until 11pm last night and was awfully tired when I got home.  Plus, day’s two gift meant I had to go straight to bed. My gift for day 2 was doing a double shift for today (day 3).  Yes, I got paid for it, but I [...]

I’ve realized its hard to give at work, in a sense, because my job (anesthesia) is to take care of others, and I don’t feel its right to call ‘doing my job’ a gift to others, although I’m often so honored to be taking care of people.  To be trusted by the patient and the [...]

I don’t remember how, but a little while back I stumbled across the website 29gifts.org.  Its whole focus, or purpose, is to encourage people to give to others – anything – from a smile, to a card, to money, clothes, anything to take the focus off of ourselves, and place it on someone else in [...]

I live in Atlanta. And normally that resonates with the Braves, Turner TV, Delta, Home Depot, Coca-cola, etc, but lately its translated to GAS CRISIS. At this point in time my husband and I have been fortunate enough to regularly come across gas stations with fuel, but yesterday we did end up waiting for just [...]

I was completely dumbfounded to see that someone (I don’t know her name, either!) had said that my blog was one that made their day – I mean, its not even a month old, and there’s hardly any content! But, nonetheless, I am totally honored, and thrilled, not to mention motivated to keep things bloggin’ [...]