On the road to Porto, Corsica

Ultimate word cloud….try Wordle! Oh no! there went another hour!

Up on the roof

Wedding 2010 made the NYT twice and Gawker.com today.  Although the NYT didn’t include a photo of Liz and Matt in the announcement, they made up for it with another article today. Now that I know it was 101 degrees (was it really??), I am even more amazed at cool Rabbi Bachman, who was entirely […]

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I thought I knew how to communicate reasonably well….but lately there’s a nanosecond delay while I sort out the appropriate narrative mode. For instance, on today’s usual morning run, Harold and I were shocked to see the ocean breach just west of Kismet.? Made the Burma road ( our local term for the dirt portion […]

Good news from Tisch Hospital

A much better evening, now that the waiting is over.?? This problem went way back to ten years ago, and could only have been fixed surgically.?? There was no mystery, nothing unanticipated.? And the long-term prognosis will be excellent. But one thing was totally unanticipated, and that was Dr. Dolgin showing up at the eleventh […]

In the hospital with a ten year old in 1998 v. an almost 21 year old in 2009

So many differences…. When Peter went off to the operating room around 430p, he was accompanied not by his mother but by his sister Caroline, a third year medical student, in scrubs. His surgeon was not our pediatric hero Dr. Dolgin at Mt. Sinai, but an adult surgeon, NYU’s Dr. Pachter.  We’re prepared for Dr. […]

McNulty puts in an appearance

After watching the first two seasons of The Wire obsessively, what else would Peter name the stuffed animal that Caroline gave him? MCNULTY, of course. Please do not tell us any plot twists.? We hear that Season Three is the best.

Introducing my family

Here’s the team on a happy vacation day in St. Croix, from left to right: Caroline, Elisabeth, and Peter Weinberg, and Matt Stine (Liz’s significant other.) How’s this for deja vu…I have to figure out how to communicate health updates for friends who are eager to hear how Peter is doing these days. Email?? Listserv?? […]