Feel like you are burning the candle at both ends? Or maybe the dental hand piece at both ends? I certainly do at times, and that's why I took the time to interview Dr. Tracey Marks, a psychiatrist in Atlanta. She told me about the field...
 I came home and found a reorganized home with all of our Valentine's Day decorations meticulously placed. Some women would flip out. I stood and admired the beauty. When my husband was small, he loved to decorate his house around the holidays, but his parents didn't...
Weight lifting gives me a lot of juice. Maybe it's because I have watched one too many Rocky films or comically think back to Hans and Franz from Saturday Night Live and their endless efforts to "Pump you up!" I really do get pumped up from...
If my son decides to play football, I want him to be the kicker...
People speak volumes with their hands. If someone shakes my hand with such vigor and force that my knuckles turn white, I immediately recognize this as an awareness issue. Either the person is so nervous that they cannot control the force of adrenal flowing through their...
I could not wait until I was out of dental school. Graduation day in May of 1998 was positively one of the most memorable days of my life. Honestly, it wasn’t because of all of the pomp and circumstance—although Lloyd Carr’s commencement speech was pretty...
Days before my international speaking debut in Barcelona, Spain, I started to feel my jaw tighten and my neck get more stiff. I was sleeping less than desired because I wanted to work on my presentation. I realized I was getting the early indicators of...
It's gonna happen. You are going to screw up. You will make an error. As a matter of fact, you will make hundreds of errors in your lifetime. What you do next is the most important thing. Although it's impossible to list all of the types...
Mastering the business side of dentistry is something I completely underestimated. I knew I learned very little in dental school despite our professor's attempts to teach us the basics of practice management. It seemed so irrelevant at the time, or at the least under prioritized. I...
The World Health Organization caught my attention when it called for feedback in regards to its newly proposed, dietary guidelines in regards to sugar consumption--free sugar to be exact. Free sugar, according to the W.H.O., is categorized as, "monosaccharides (such as glucose, fructose) and disaccharides...