Failure occurs every single day of my life. I have gotten used to it. Fails can range from something as innocuous as falling off of a swing (and inevitably having my friend Paige capture the moment on camera) to failing to go through my entire callback list or emails at the end of a long […]
Since You’ve Been Away
(dedicated to my father, Igor) You passed away October 19th, 2018, and not a moment goes by in which I don’t think about you, reflecting on the life you lived and commemorating your spirit. Perhaps the quality I admired most in you was how you never took yourself too seriously, something from which we can […]
Open Mic Legacy
Sometimes it feels as though clinic life can be all-consuming, and patients sometimes even make appearances in my dreams! It’s so important for me to have activities outside of work, and rather recently I found a new one. For some thirty-odd years, my father would play guitar and sing Russian folks songs on the first […]
