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My Everyday Life
Each one of us is dealt a unique set of odds. Follow Jon, Emily, Alex, Molly, and Rachel as they navigate the odds of their everyday lives.
MONDAY - THE RE-EDUCATION OF JON PITTS WILEY: CAN I HOLLER?
Hollering. For my money, it is the single greatest American pastime as the days get longer and the skirts do not.
FRIDAY - MAKING ROUNDS: BABY STEPS
Ariel, a previously healthy one-year-old, is getting celebrity level treatment. Everyone (doctors, residents, medical students) wants to take a peek at her. On the wards, this means only one thing: she has something really interesting and probably rare.
THURSDAY - KNOCKED OFF BALANCE: NATURE OR NURTURE?
Since having kids I’ve come to believe that a great deal of what makes us who we are is there from that start. We have turned out three kids who are incredibly different in all ways, from their looks to their aptitude to their interests, and they’ve been that way from day one.
WEDNESDAY - LETTER FROM AFGHANISTAN: SKIRMISH—AVOIDING THE HURT LOCKER
Had a very early morning today. We are now sharing our tent with another company that just arrived in country and they are not quite used to the time change...as a result they are awake and crashing around the tent at about 4:00 am.
TUESDAY - 29 ACROSS: LET'S CALL HIM OLIVER
Any scenario that ends with me hugging someone who isn’t hugging me back hasn’t exactly gone as planned.
MONDAY - THE RE-EDUCATION OF JON-PITTS WILEY: CONTROVERSY
You've never done anything if you've never been booed. So said Bob Dylan in one of those rare moments that one could fully understand what he's saying. I wrote this piece in November of 2008. I post it now because I've grown tired of being safe.
FRIDAY - MAKING ROUNDS: LOOKIN' FOR SPECIALTY LOVE
Trying to figure out what to be for the rest of my life, I’m finding, is filled with the same build-up, emotional roller coastering, and unexpected disappointment that friends have expressed when telling me eHarmony horror stories.
THURSDAY - KNOCKED OFF BALANCE: COLD FEET
My name is Molly, and I have an irrational fear that my kids have cold feet. I lie awake in my bed at night sometimes—even now, that my oldest is almost five years old—and obsessively worry that they have cold feet.
WEDNESDAY - LETTER FROM AFGHANISTAN: THE BURDEN OF LEADERSHIP
My battalion has a tradition of making the junior Lieutenant carry around a mop bucket with a mop that has a flag hanging off it saying "Jr. LT." It has been the bane of my existence since getting to Afghanistan.
TUESDAY - 29 ACROSS: THE DAUGHTER
There are few things worse than flying home for your father’s funeral, but I managed to find one: flying home for your father’s funeral while sitting next to a screaming child. On a 14-hour flight.
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March
- Monday - The Re-Education of Jon Pitts-Wiley: Juicy Fruit
- Tuesday - 29 Across: Happy Birthday to Me—Twenty-Fine
- Wednesday - Letter from Afghanistan: Baptism by Fire
- Thursday - Knocked off Balance: Guilt—a Way of Life
- Friday - Making Rounds: Class Rank and File
- Monday - The Re-Education of Jon Pitts-Wiley: The Well of Woman
- Tuesday - 29 Across: The Daughter
- Wednesday - Letter from Afghanistan: The Burden of Leadership
- Thursday - Knocked Off Balance: Cold Feet
- Friday - Making Rounds: Lookin' for Specialty Love
- Monday - The Re-Education of Jon-Pitts Wiley: Controversy
- Tuesday - 29 Across: Let's Call Him Oliver
- Wednesday - Letter From Afghanistan: Skirmish—Avoiding The Hurt Locker
- Thursday - Knocked Off Balance: Nature or Nurture?
- Friday - Making Rounds: Baby Steps
- Monday - The Re-Education of Jon Pitts Wiley: Can I Holler?
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February
- Monday - The Re-Education of Jon Pitts-Wiley: The Odds of Me
- Monday - The Re-Education of Jon Pitts-Wiley: Lessons of a Feather
- Tuesday - 29 Across: The Reluctant Bostonian
- Wednesday - Letter from Afghanistan: Flashback
- Thursday - Knocked Off Balance: Doing Time
- Friday - Making Rounds: "It's Just Like Grey's Anatomy!"
- Tuesday - 29 Across: Plus One
- Wednesday - Letter from Afghanistan: In Country
- Thursday - Knocked Off Balance: Jockeying for Position
- Friday - Making Rounds: My First Time
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