Introduction

I'm a young Canadian physician and married mother of three. I practice refugee and HIV medicine in Vancouver, and motherhood from a cliff in Deep Cove.

I find medicine profoundly rewarding, although I'm still not certain it was worth the sacrifice of my twenties.

Three days of the work week I stay home with my kids. There are mornings spent drinking tea and reading, and afternoons picking blackberries. There is also noise, mess and endless menial tasks, some days whipping me like a surgical rotation in residency never could.

It's time to graduate the medical and domestic anecdotes from dinner parties to the Internet.

Comments

[Celeste Allyn]

Your stories are delightful(my favorite is the bunny story).
Seeing your youngest daughter walking makes me aware of what I am missing, one of many things since leaving Vancouver.
I am missing you all very much and I imagine how nice it would be to sit in Deep Cove surrounded by the changing colours of the season, sipping some chai tea.

[Angela Kukler]

Your web site actually brought tears to my eyes and I can't tell you exactly why except maybe for the fact that it reminds me that we are now grown women with husbands and children; something we just used to talk about when we attended Trinity together, our 'innocence' is gone forever, now only to be witnessed in our children. Of course the fact that I'm 9 months pregnant and ready to "pop" any minute is probably not helping my emotional state at this time. I soo enjoyed your stories thank-you for sharing! Angela

[Martina]

Ange,
Yes, it's strange. We called ourselves adults at university, but I'm only just starting to realize that I actually may be one.