Go together well

{Dad, third from right, breaking ground at the site of his clinic, ~1987.} On June 24, I graduated from family medicine residency and became the fourth family physician/general practitioner in three generations of Dorwarts. A week later, on July 1, our family gathered in Sidney, Nebraska, to celebrate my dad's retirement after 35 years as a family physician there. I couldn't be prouder of the work my dad has done throughout his career, his dedication to our hometown, his persistence through difficult times, and his unwavering insistence on doing the right thing even when it's not the easy thing. Even though I considered forays into surgery and gynecologic oncology (among other things), I am happy to have found my way to family medicine and to my father's footsteps. Although my dad worked long hours throughout my childhood, I never felt like I was missing out because I appreciated the importance of what he was doing. My perception was that he was spending his d...

At the time of the 2010 census, my hometown  had a population of 6,757. Growing up in a small town was nice overall, and there are some definite perks associated with life in a small town: 5. no traffic      After a year of life in an area that has consistently been ranked as the worst for traffic congestion in the        U.S. (Chris had to deal with it much more than I did), I appreciate the lack of traffic in Sidney even more.        4. knowing your neighbors      And everyone else! Whenever I'm in Sidney, I go to the Coffee Corner (photo below from the          Cheyenne County Chamber of Commerce ), where I invariably get to see a lot of friendly faces. While it is      generally positive to see friends and acquaintances all over town, at times it is frustrating--like if you're not      feeling well and you just want to pick up some c...

I lived in one place from the time I was born until I left for college, but since then I've led kind of a nomadic life: four different dorm rooms/suites during my time at Creighton ; one summer spent sleeping on the floor in a bedroom shared with my friend Marie in a house rented by some girls we sort of knew in the Dundee neighborhood in Omaha (it seemed like a good idea at the time...); 4 months in Granada, Spain ; a year in Forest Park, IL ; a year in the Field Club neighborhood and three years in the Gifford Park neighborhood in Omaha, NE; and now a year in Charles Village in Baltimore.  {this will always be "home"} {transient homes, in chronological order: top L-R: Kiewit Hall, Kenefick Hall, Davis Square, Dundee--sleeping on the floor; bottom L-r: Plaza de Gran Capitan in Granada, Opus Hall, Des Plaines in Forest Park, Field Club in Omaha} {the second-longest home: Gifford Park} When I found out on March 15 that we're heading to Vermont for t...