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Dad and daughter go for 100, then 1,000 nights of bedtime reading. and they don’t stop there… http://tinyurl.com/yl3gpfa

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If I can make a kid feel this way, then I’ve done my job. For all the sleeplessness, the heartache and the worry, there are moments when you do something to evoke this look of wonder on your child’s face. Take them on a ride at Disney (as I did here). Treat them to a [...]

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I recently heard an interview with Dr. Jerome Groopman of Harvard Medical School whose new book, How Doctors Think, attempts to explain, among other things, why doctors misdiagnose patients somewhere between 15 and 25 percent of the time. Part of the reason? Doctors interrupt their patients, on average, within the first 18 seconds of a [...]

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“Dad?” “Hmmmm?” “Did you hear what I said?” “Hmmmm?” Shit. Am I one of those dads now? I recently heard an interview with Dr. Jerome Groopman of Harvard Medical School whose new book, How Doctors Think, attempts to explain, among other things, why doctors misdiagnose patients somewhere between 15 and 25 percent of the time. [...]

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(First person who gets the reference wins…) I travel. A lot. Or what feels like a lot for me, given that I’d prefer to be with my family each night than in a hotel room. Many people idealize the traveling life, imagining that it’s a great reprieve from the rigors and stress of the workaday [...]

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Yesterday was our Family Study day at my son’s school. Each week, one student’s family comes with a basket full of keepsakes, pictures, and personal items. We brought photos of each of the great-grandparents for whom Sam and Sylvie were named; some seashells from Florida (representing my travels for business and also our love of [...]

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