Little One Step
Once of the benefits of being a working parent with a young child is that you have are constantly forced to stop and look at the basic teachings of life. Each evening I am obliged to read a little...
View ArticleNashville Event to Commemorate Roe at The Rutledge with Gretchen Peters and...
From an email from Planned Parenthood of Middle and East Tennessee, reposted with permission: On Saturday, January 30th, PPMET will celebrate 37 years of Roe v. Wade with a special concert featuring...
View ArticlePPMET Event at The Rutledge Postponed
If you were planning on heading out to PPMET’s Roe commemoration featuring Gretchen Peters at The Rutledge tonight, it’s been postponed due to the weather conditions. Looks like it will now happen on...
View Article"Parenthood": Sex, Drugs, & Asperger's
Reviews of NBCâs new primetime series âParenthoodâ have been mixed, but whether you loved or hated the latest iteration of Lauren Grahamâs messed-up Mommy character, the showâs pilot took on...
View ArticleFollow-Up: More "Parenthood" Drama
Turns out this week’s episode of “Parenthood” caused even more commotion than we thought in our original post. The bad news for NBC? All the fuss was online, not on TV. Remember Tuesday night’s...
View ArticleThe Baby Doctors: Not a Soap Opera Starring Infants
Itâs a boy! Congrats. Now what? Thereâs still no how-to baby guide to prepare you for whatâs in store, but The Baby Doctors might be the next-best solution. Offering 90-minute consolations, New...
View ArticleYou Know You're Unwell If...
…you heed overly earnest Hollywood stars who are contractually obligated to tell you what “parenthood” means so that NBC can promote one of its primetime shows that â unlike actual parenthood â...
View ArticleLet Them Eat Cake! (And Anything Else They Want)
When I sent my Blisstree post from last week around to my friends, I figured Iâd hear a reproach or two for having hurled a certain unsavory word around while trying to get my tween-ish age kids off...
View ArticleQuote of the Day: Michael Levine on What Makes a Parent
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. â Michael Levine Post from: BlissTree Quote of the Day: Michael Levine on What Makes a Parent (Source: Genetics and...
View ArticleRoe v. Wade: Baby Boomers Drive Fight for Abortion Rights
Thirty-seven years after Roe v. Wade, the fight for reproductive rights is still being waged across America. Last month, President Obamaâs health care bill just barely passed in the Senate, thanks in...
View ArticleThe Diaphragm Is Back, And Itâs Latex-Free
After a prolonged hiatus, during which diaphragms became as scarce as Elaine’s treasured sponges, the Ortho All Flex diaphragm is back, and it’s now latex-free. The over one-year (at least in my area)...
View ArticleWomen and Pregnancy: Happy With or Without a Baby?
photo: Thinkstock Having a baby isn’t something most people take lightly. Usually couples are actively trying to conceive, or are taking precautions to avoid having a child â right? Actually, almost...
View ArticleWould You Have a One-Night Stand If It Could Re-Energize Your Committed...
So last night I saw a screening of The Freebie, a new indie film that opens today in select cities, is helmed by first-time director Katie Aselton, and stars Ms. Aselton and Dax Shepard (of NBC’s...
View ArticleSister Wives? I'm Going to Citizen's Arrest Your A**es
Most of the 374 Brown children on "Sister Wives" Here’s what I’ve learned about a big religious family that practices polygamy and gets their own reality TV show: They’re no different from any other...
View ArticleHealth Care coverage for all hard workers....
BEWARE: this post might be incredibly offensive to many but that's not my intention at all! I'm venting here! My mode of thinking might be a bit extreme for most.I'm actually in shock and awe as I...
View ArticleKitchens provide a refuge
Here’s my column in Sunday’s Greenville News. I hope you enjoy it! Kitchen provide a refuge when life get’s stormy I have long loved kitchens. The kitchen of my childhood home was cozy, with a small...
View ArticleGoing Global By Starting Local
It's been an incredible year for me of self-discovery and development. This sounds incredibly cliche I know, but I really feel like now I have 'arrived'.Every year I promise my family, this is it, this...
View ArticleAbortion Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg
By Roger PilonToday POLITICO Arena asks: Given the push by Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) to deny all federal funding to Planned Parenthood, are we seeing the revival of abortion as a major fault line in...
View ArticleSunday News Round-Up, Monday Style
The Now@NEJM blog posted a new item in its Clinical Practice series, Streptococcal Pharyngitis. This seemed particularly relevant after a worker fixing a light on Friday – after about 20 minutes in my...
View ArticleHow to Have a Great Relationship: Be Young, Married, and Childless
There are countless books, articles, and well-paid professionals selling ways to achieve marital bliss, but new study from Britain lays out the basics: If you want a great relationship, be young and...
View ArticleUpdate on Janâ¦light ahead!
Thank you, first of all, for your prayers and love. Jan’s last radiation therapy was last Monday and her last chemotherapy was last Thursday. While those are happy, hopeful things, she still...
View Article"Right To Life" means "You Have No Rights To Your Life" In Republican.
H/T Red Rambler: Is Pro-Life really Pro-Life?Image via Wikipedia Have you ever noticed that when Social Conservatives use a bumper sticker term like "Right To Life," it often means something entirely...
View ArticleActing helps us see weâre part of a great drama
This is my column in today’s Greenville News. Acting helps us see we’re part of a great drama I like a well-executed play. I’ve been awed on Broadway, and humored in Las Vegas. I have laughed at local...
View ArticleâWeâre All In This Togetherâ
By Roger PilonToday POLITICO Arena asks: Given that Planned Parenthoodâs online donations have shot up over the last two months, is Mike Pence (R-Ind.) correct to say it could — and should — operate...
View ArticleDate night romance revisited
Those of you who read my blog know that it has been a tough winter. My wife Jan has gone through a rough patch with cancer, as well as a pulmonary embolus. Well, we’re on the sunny side of things...
View ArticleWarn others; and donât worry about the hypocricy label
I'm not judging, I'm just saying... Warn others, and don’t worry about the hypocrisy label My column in yesterday’s Greenville News Graduating high school students will soon be headed for beaches and...
View ArticleTennessee Constitutional Amendment on Abortion to Go to Voters, Planned...
SJR127, a joint resolution in the Tennessee legislature to “provide that nothing in Constitution of Tennessee secures or protects right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion,” has passed...
View ArticleGraduates: devote your lives to becoming a benefit
This is my column in today’s Greenville News               Dear graduates, congratulations on your accomplishments! Whether you are leaving high-school, trade-school, college or...
View ArticleI am a Giant Whiner About the Heat, and Attempts to Defund Planned Parenthood...
Ugh. The air conditioner at my place has been broken for the last few weeks, and it’s been a pretty constant 85 degrees in here. I have no idea how people tolerate the south without a/c on a regular...
View ArticleThe relevance of high school? Cool column from the LA Times.
As a home-school dad I found this article very interesting!...
View ArticleNo more doctoring for me
My son Sam and I were driving along (well, he was driving) and discussing all of the things we’d like to do in life. His interests are expansive, just like his dear old Papa, aka me. We both...
View ArticleTennesseeâs Version of Defunding Planned Parenthood, or Why Fewer Nashville...
Tennessee’s recent budget included a provision to strip family planning funds from Planned Parenthood. These are non-abortion funds that paid for women to receive care such as birth control. There was...
View ArticleMama is home, and order returns
My wife was in New York City with her girlfriends last week. Which meant I was in charge of the house, dogs and especially, the kids. Believe it or not, I love taking care of my family! Though...
View ArticleDefunding Planned Parenthood in Tennessee â Tying Together the News
I posted on Friday about Nashville’s Department of Health deciding to accept the funds that would normally go to Planned Parenthood for family planning services, and stating when they did so they were...
View ArticleWho Knows or Cares How Planned Parenthood Cuts Affect Nashville Womenâs...
Not the Governor who pushed for the move, apparently. Earlier this month, I wrote about how Republican-led efforts to defund Planned Parenthood in Tennessee will affect women in Nashville – one of two...
View ArticleA rest for the heart
This is my column in July’s EM News. Have a restful day! http://journals.lww.com/em-news/Fulltext/2011/07000/Second_Opinion__A_Rest_for_the_Heart.10.aspx We travel to Hilton Head, SC, every spring...
View ArticleThe future belongs to Ally, who âgets it.â
Ally gets it. You see, Ally works hard. I talk to her in the grocery store where she is employed She is young, but speaks to me like an adult every time we chat. ‘Hi Dr. Leap, how are you?’ She engages...
View ArticleWhat do Baptists do at church camp?
Church Camp Helps Kids Learn How to Choose This is my column in today’s Greenville News. My wife and I just returned from helping to chaperone 20 middle and high-school students at a church camp...
View ArticleOh Socks, where art thou?
This is my column from Friday in our local paper, the Daily Journal Messenger. Oh Socks, where art thou? Small losses can leave deep wounds. This is why my son, Elijah, still gets misty when we mention...
View ArticlePharmalot⦠Pharmalittle⦠Good Morning
Hello, everyone, and top of the morning to you. Another shiny day is unfolding on the Pharmalot corporate campus, where we have much to do. You know, the drill - reading documents, making phone calls,...
View ArticleNo co-pay for birth control?
No co-pay for contraception? So it turns out that one of the provisions of Obama-care is that it prohibits prohibits insurance co-pays for contraception. I find this curious. I always pay co-pays!...
View ArticleMourning on the road home
We are called by Christ, among other things, to mourn with those who mourn, to weep with those who weep. This sometimes happens, suddenly and briefly, in the emergency room. I was sitting at my desk...
View ArticleLimiting work hours: residents and parents?
The American College of Graduate Medical Education has enacted further restrictions on resident work hours. No more than 80 hours per week of work for resident physicians, averaged over one month.Â...
View ArticleEvery second is a gift
, no matter what the season This is my column in today’s Greenville News I am sitting here, looking into the sky and out into the yard. The clouds are hanging low over Tamassee. They are pregnant, but...
View ArticleThis might sting a littleâ¦
This might sting a little… When I was a child, I was often painted orange with Merthiolate. My grandmother, like every good grandmother, kept a bottle handy at all times. Merthiolate was an...
View ArticleBeing âhung upâ about sex isnât so horrible
This is my column in yesterday’s Greenville News. A direct link requires a subscription, so I reprinted it here. Thanks! Being ‘hung up’ about sex isn’t so horrible One of the chief objections to...
View ArticleA little Rifle Relaxation, RWS style!
Rifle relaxation I was craving something this evening, something to settle my focus. I had spent the day in the car, transporting our home-schooled kids to music lessons. I read, and sat in the...
View ArticleAs you would have done to your kids
I think a lot about the slow, certain dissolution of medicine as we know it. Mental health issues crowd emergency departments, as few mental health clinics are available. Psychiatrists are in short...
View ArticleTwo of the worst words of all
: ‘Not now.’ (This column first appeared in the Greenville News, but I re-wrote and expanded it for my EMN readers in the September edition. So here it is with a few special thoughts for the...
View ArticleBack to college advice
This is a phenomenal essay on the things college students need to realize, and how they must begin to prepare for a changing economy. Pass it on to any kid you know who is in college, or going to...
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