text:
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
There's a snippet of a cartoon I remember from my childhood--I can't remember if it was "Tom and Jerry" but if it wasn't it was in a similar vein--where a mouse is reclining in a hot tub. He's sitting back with his arms along the rim of the tub, maxing and relaxing as cartoon mice do, wearing that look of smug satisfaction he was prone to. (As an aside: I never liked Jerry. I always thought he was a real jerk to Tom, a cat who was just fulfilling his evolutionary imperative after all. Ditto Road Runner. Ditto those capering harpy kids that keep taking the Trix away from the rabbit. JUST GIVE HIM A BOWL, YOU ASSHOLES.)
So anyway, the mouse. He's enjoying the hot tub. He's relishing the water, the heat. But the water starts to get a little bit hotter. And a little bit hotter still. Suddenly it's not so comfortable anymore. Not hot enough that he wants to get out of the tub or anything, but just...hotter. He starts sweating. His fur starts getting a little frizzy (from the humidity, you understand). Then, finally, he turns around and notices the cat behind him, slicing onions and carrots to add into the now boiling water. (My memory of this part is not quite as clear, but the cat may have been wearing a chef's toque.)
I've thought of that cartoon clip a lot in the last year.
But let me back up for a second.
If you've ever followed this blog with regularity in the past (though I'm sure with my sporadic updates I've winnowed that number down to only the die-hardest of die-hards) you've probably noticed that I haven't had the time to write much of substance since I went back to work after my maternity leave last September, and that I haven't updated basically at all since December. The reasons are all those that you could probably expect: busy job, three kids, and the responsibilities and duties associated therein. The explanations are always boring because everyone's reasons for being busy are pretty much the same, but to put it in medical terms: it's just a matter of triage.
It's hard to know where the tipping point was--though I have to presume that it was at least in part associated with the addition of our much-beloved third child into the mix--but at some point in the last year, things started getting hard. Not impossible, not un-doable, but subtly, Joe and I started to notice just how tight things were getting. Time was tight, at home, with the kids, with each other. Emotional resources were tight. Patience was less of a resource we could reliably depend on. The days and weeks started becoming these things that we were enduring, rather than living, let alone enjoying. Again, the imagery from an old movie comes to mind--inmates in a prison, grimly notching off yet another day on the wall of their cell.
I don't mean to imply that our life is a joyless dirge--far from it. We love our family, we love our jobs. Even working the hours that we do, we try carve out quality time when we can--long weekends, holidays, family vacations where they fit in. We bolus our family time because our basal infusion rate is so parsimonious, but we do make an effort to compensate. And we liked to tell ourselves that this bolus dosing was sufficient, and it worked...not well, but well enough.
But it didn't change the fact that over the past few years, and over the last year in particular, the feeling of our everyday lives becoming something that we were tolerating started to feel more an more pervasive. When you only see your kids for an hour or two at the very tail-end of each day, only to perform the most basic of maintenance for them (bath! brush teeth! yell at them for not taking their baths and brushing their teeth quickly enough because I'm tired and they're tired and everyone's tired so LET'S ALL GO TO BED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE) you start to feel like you're consisting on a diet of discarded crusts in an otherwise empty pizza box. Maybe you can piece together a life in these scraps of the day, but split between three kids, it's simply not enough time.
Joe and I have been discussing for years our long-term outlook for modifying (read: decreasing) the work hours for at least one of us to have more time with the kids, and for the longest time, our party line has been: soon. We're going to do it soon. "Maybe in a few years or so," was the stock phrase. But there was always the next thing. We'll think about it when I finish my fellowship. We'll figure it out it when I get more settled in my job. We'll do it if I make partner in my group. Later. We'll do it. But later. Meanwhile, time marches on.
Then: I was talking with one of my partners at work a few months ago. He has four kids, the oldest of whom had just turned eight. "I just realized," he said as we were chatting in the front hall of the OR, sidestepping a stretcher careening down the hallway from the PACU, "that he's eight. In another eight years, he's going to be in high school, driving, getting ready to go to college. Half my time with him is already done. I mean, they come home after they go to college and all, but you know what that's like. It's not the same. Half my time of having my son in my house is over already."
There feeling that I had after having that conversation was not unlike being wrapped in a piece of wet burlap and gently asphyxiated. Because Cal was turning eight too. Half our time raising our oldest son in our home was done, and not only had this particular calculus not ever occurred to me, but looking back, I can't say I really know where those eight years went.
Because see, we've always lived like this. Cal was born when we were residents. His entire life--and thus of course, Mack and Nina's entire life too--we've worked. Both Joe and I have worked our tails off. We're not residents anymore of course, and some of the specifics of our jobs have changed from year to year, but the fact of it is that we each work on average 50-60 hours a week, more if we're taking weekend call, and although we've been saying for years that we were going to try to get more control of our work schedules to put some more time into our family life, it hadn't happened yet. The decision point was always pushed off down the road. Later. Soon. Not yet. Someday. And now Cal was turning eight and I have no idea how time passed so fast.
If I'm going to be completely honest with myself I'm sure some of this particular grim inertia was also linked to a perverse macho pride. I've always spoken a lot about work-life balance in medicine and how these antiquated notions, about doctors functioning as around-the-clock automatons sacrificing their personal lives for the greater good, would have to evolve along with the rest of the world. But I think that in some ways I felt safe championing the choice for others to go part-time because I myself chose to work full-time. You do what works for your family, everyone's definition of work-life balance is different. But saying it from the vantage point of someone with three kids and still worked full-time herself felt like a secure platform from which to proselytize, like I was somehow above reproach from people who might accuse all part-time doctors of being lazy or uncommitted. DO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO; BUT AS FOR MYSELF, I AM DOING ALL THE THINGS.
And to be honest, we were getting by. It wasn't wonderful, but it was OK. We were surviving. Maybe we weren't "living our best life" to invoke an Oprah-ism (and I don't even know how I know that since I never even watched Oprah) but...day to day, we were getting by.
And then, the week before Memorial Day, our nanny of five years quit. With no warning, and giving zero notice. She just left one day and mentioned on her way out the door that she wasn't coming back.
Boom. Game-changer.
I'm not going to talk too much about the nanny thing because frankly, after probably the most stressful two months of our lives, I'm just over it. It wasn't even so much the issue of finding a new nanny--though that, obviously, was a huge part of solving our problems, at least in the short term. But the larger and more important part was having to honestly evaluate our life, our choices, and just how much time we did indeed spend at work, away from our children. It was like turning the stark, faintly buzzing fluorescent exam light onto the fish-white underbelly of what kept things functioning at a level that passed as "OK" for the past five years. And what we realized was that: it really isn't OK. Having to outsource this much of our children's care--of our children's lives--to someone else, particularly someone who after five years could walk out on them without so much as a backwards glance...is not OK.
(This is putting aside the obvious logistical difficulty of finding a non-live-in person to work 50-60 hours a week. It's a tough sell to say the least. One suggestion, perhaps less helpful than most, was that we should just hire two nannies. To which my reaction was, if you have to hire two people to take care of your kids while you're at work, it's possible you're not spending enough time with your kids.)
So. Joe and I discussed and agonized and number crunched and evaluated. We talked to a lot of people. We agonized some more. And what's going to happen now is this: as of September 1st, I will be going part-time at my job. Joe and I would have been fine with either one of us working less, but because of the ways our jobs are structured, it makes more sense right now for the part-time working parent to be me. My new schedule will have me working three days a week, mixed in with my share of nights, weekend and holiday call. And my main goal for the other two days of the week? To do some of the things that I've never been able to do with my kids because I've haven't had the time. Simply to be around more.
I know this all seems unnecessarily melodramatic of an announcement to some, because plenty of people in a multitude of fields choose to work part-time. But for me, it is a big deal, because to be honest, when you're accustomed to following a prescribed path, swimming against the current for a change can be scary. And there are a lot of issues--job guilt, fear of resentment from co-workers or being perceived as less than fully committed to medicine, concerns about crippling my career potential--that I'm working through having finally made this decision. There's a fear of not wanting to let people down.
But that's it on the other side too, isn't it? I don't want to let people down. I want to do my job well. All my jobs. And I think that right now, I need to spend more time with my kids. Nothing's broken, I still love being an anesthesiologist, and the fact that I've worked full-time for the first eight years of parenthood wasn't the wrong call nor has it damaged our family. It's just that our choices then are not the same as our choices now, and when we have better options we owe it to ourselves to take them. We could be making more of this life. We could be doing better.
I'm not going to be there hovering in the periphery for every single second of my kids' lives, nor frankly should I be. But I'm looking forward to just being around more.
So that's what's going on with us. In most ways, it's really no big thing. But in other ways, it's the biggest thing.
90 comments:
Well, I can say this, it might take you FOREVER to post but when you do its a doozy!! I have been following you since med school and I have always admired your tenacity and constant moving forward with your life and goals. I know this was a hard decision for you to come to and I hope it helps. As a single mom of two kids, I always felt as well that life was moving too fast and that at the end of the there was only time to save the teeth! This will be awesome for you guys! You will have time to do fun stuff that you will never forget! (and maybe post a little more often??) Good luck!!!ReplyDelete
I think you've made a brave choice, and I applaud you for doing what you think is best. I think that's what it comes down to anyway. Some of my female classmates have had babies on a Friday and been back in class on a Monday, and that works as well for them as the female docs who choose to work part-time. On a self-involved note, I'm looking forward to reading more blog posts or seeing more pictures. Woot!ReplyDelete
We too have 3 kids (4yo, 1.5yo twins), and I dream of being able to cut back on work someday. I worry once my older son starts school and we enter the world of short days and random days off that I'm going to need more flexibility with my time. I'm a scientist working in biotech, and unfortunately there do not appear to be many part-time options for me. After our twins arrived, I inquired about switching to a 4-day work week and was shut down. My job requires my presence here during the work week, and there are hundreds of other PhD scientists out there willing to work 5 days/week if I choose not to. I really enjoy what I do, but fear I'm going to have to make a major career change if I want to make more time for my family.ReplyDelete
Good for you & Joe for working together to find a solution that works for you family. I hope it's a smooth transition for everyone. Good luck!
My dad always says "Can a decision be reversed?" and if the answer is "yes" (stripping away all arguments of complication, time, expense, etc), then he would suggest that trying the new thing is the right choice. (Things that fall into the "no" category, such as "amputating a limb", obviously require much more consideration.) I guess what I'm saying is, should you hate this decision after giving it a go, you can (hopefully - I'm not a doctor, so am unfamiliar with the intricacies of your position, the hierarchy, etc) always change your mind. Best of luck!ReplyDelete
Good for you for making the tough decision that works for your family! And I'm selfishly hoping that this means you'll have more time to write awesome blog posts!ReplyDelete
Congratulations! I totally relate to how hard it is to go against the crowd. Or to join a crowd and wonder if it's the right one. But doing either is brave!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3:39 PM
First off, I consider it kismet that I checked your blog today as I haven't been here in months too. Second, Congrats on getting off the treadmill. That's what I like to call it. The "push, push, go, go, get through it" of medicine is so much a part of our culture. It can be so hard to even think differently and realize that you don't have to be that way. I am actively NOT working toward promotion and enjoying my life. I hope you do too!ReplyDelete
I'm going play the good for you card too. If this is what works best for you and your family, it is the right thing to do.ReplyDelete
I say congrats on your choice! I am a fellow doctor who did the same thing, and I have not looked back once on my choice (makes it sound easy, but trust me it was HARD for many of the reasons you wrote about it). You'll be defending your decision daily to everyone who decides to comment, but it gets easier as you realize how awesome it is to just be. around. more. Bravo to you for the courageous shift. (Side note - I blog and under the About Me tab is my same process of making my decision. Seems we female docs often feel so alone, but you're not.)... Jen @ www.themamayears.comReplyDelete
That must have been a really tough decision. You're a good doctor but also a great mom. It's the old "you'll never wish you spent more time at work" argument. Enjoy your kids and work hard. You can do both, just...with the scales tipping the way you need them to.ReplyDelete
- Martha5:13 PM
I'm in medicine too, and I've seen this decision be made by many other individuals & couples that I've worked with. It's not something I've had to face yet, as I currently do not have children and haven't yet had to consider the math behind working & making more time for loved ones. And I don't intend for this to sound critical of the choice that you have made, which as you describe is best for you and your family, but I do think it's worth discussing--that for all the couples I've seen where one person makes a choice to work less, it always seems to "make the most sense" for the woman in a heterosexual partnership to go part-time.ReplyDelete
- kris5:14 PM
I envision your future family life as something to be really jealous of (me: European full time surgery resident, separated from full time anaesthesiologist daddy of 3 yo beloved daughter) and completely feel the craziness behind the neurotic mechanisms that also make me say: Going part time? Unimaginable. For others? Hell yeah!ReplyDelete
BUT can I just say: just for ONCE I would have loved to read about the GUY cutting back on his hours.
Seems like we always find an excuse why it can't be them - nor both equally (each of you 4 days instead you 3?).Replies
Martha and Kris:Delete
Hi! Re: gender disparity in going part-time, believe me, I've thought about that too. There are two answers: the nuts and bolts answer, and the REAL TALK answer.
Nuts and bolts: I'm and anesthesiologist and Joe is a surgeon. Many people say that it makes "more sense" for the wife to go part-time in these situations because she makes less money in her job, but that's not the case for us, at least not at this point in our careers. What makes our jobs different is the nature of the beast--or of our respective beasts. Anesthesiology is a job that offers relatively more flexability in many circumstances because of the ability to be "plugged in" (or, in this case, unplugged) from the OR based on case demand. Joe, and many other young private practice surgeons, however, need to first build a sustainable practice on their own. That means they need to be more available to see patients, do procedures, and do surgery in the OR. In other words, him dropping his patient availability to 60% would translate to a much, much more than 60% decrease in salary.
But now, REAL TALK: If I were the surgeon and Joe were the anesthesiologist, would it be precisely mirrored? When it comes to taking more time for our kids, do I just "want it" more? Would it be less well received for Joe, even in a different field of medicine than the one he's currently in, to drop his work hours for family reasons at a relatively early point in his career than for me? All these things are real considerations too.
I will say, though, that Joe and I have talked about him eventually scaling back as well, or at least more efficiently scheduling the time he has at work. But it's a process. One step at a time.
- kerry5:24 PM
Woohoo! Whenever I hear women agonizing about how to add another week or two onto their maternity leave, I want to ask them, "Do you realize how much more awesome your kid will be at one (or five, or eight)? Save it for then!" So glad that your hard work over the years means that you now have the flexibility to spend more time your already awesome children.ReplyDelete
Michelle, I'm so glad I happened to read your post today. I also am contemplating a part-time schedule after all these years of trying to juggle full time private peds endo practice, taking call 24/7 365 days a year, and missing out on so many things for my now oldest 5 year old son! His brothers are 3 and 2 and don't verbalize as much, but my 5 year old is ALWAYS asking when I will be home, if I'll be able to spend more time with him, and asks for more Mommy and Son alone days, because typically he only sees me the last 1-2 hours of his day. I truly feel your emotions of all this. So many past mentors always taught as a female physician NEVER go part-time because you get taken advantage of; but as I've gotten older, I'v learned life can be flexible and for my kids now, they need me to be around more! Babysitters and Au Pairs just don't fill in the same as their mother. So, congratulations for a brave, and well-planned life decision. I'm eager to hear how things progress once fall is here :)ReplyDelete
I've been wondering what happened! I'm glad you are going to get to spend more time as a family. I love reading your blog (whether you update it or not). Best of luck on your new adventures and way to go on making such a hard decision!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:12 PM
Taking a breath is good. For all of you because you will all feel the change and it will be nice. This time with your children is VERY fleeting. I am glad you are in a position to make this choice. Joy to you all.ReplyDelete
I have to admit that I thought the same thing as Kris did re: you vs. Joe scaling back. While that's part of it, I'm also really happy for you that you've come to a decision you're happy with. I don't think it's an irreversible one either, should you ever desire to resume full time work. It IS hard seeing my daughter only 1-2 hours a day, even though I love what I do. Sometimes I worry that it's not going to be enough for me over the enxt couple of years during residency.ReplyDelete
Well this couldn't be more timely. I've just fellowed so I'm finished training (I'm a GP - I thinki you call them family doctors with obstetric qualifications so I also deliver bubs) and I'm 28 weeks pregnant. There's been a lot of angst over the last few months as we try to figure out what to do.ReplyDelete
My husband is not a doctor and is military so has no work flexibility in terms of part time. I do. So it makes sense for me to take the time off and then recommence part time. But I've been struggling with that same feeling. It's been go go go in my career for so long (15 years all up counting med school) and I feel like I'm LETTING THE TEAM DOWN. Which is irrational - but I suppose that's how we're trained.
I'm sure I'll love the time off with the new little person but I'm still feeling uneasy. I mean, not working??? Say, what?
- Anonymous9:25 PM
Yaaaaaay! It sounds like there's a good chance you will be happier with this life change, which means I think all your die-hard-y followers are happy too. Thanks for continuing your excellent blog.ReplyDelete
Any initial plans for the new time at home? (Cue Homer: "I'm going to drink a lot of beer and stay out alllllll night!")
Kudos to you on your decision! I went through a period of guilt when I made the decision to stop working several years ago. Took me quite a while to get over that despite the fact that I was SOOO much happier being able to spend more time with my boys & being more involved in their day to day activities.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:24 PM
Congrats! Great news!ReplyDelete
Good work unapologetically pursuing your dreams. It's ok (and appropriate!) for your dreams to be 'getting home on time and spending more time with the fam' at this stage in your life.
I'm a woman doctor who works full time and my husband works part-time. He stayed home when our daughters were tiny and now takes them back and forth to school. He stays with them when they're sick. He does the grocery shopping, the laundry, and cooks dinner every night.
His job was just more conducive to flexibility than mine so that was the path we took.
It's wonderful to have such a progressive and forward thinking partner but I'm not going to lie that sometimes I get jealous of how much time he spends with the kids. That's a real thing! It's not just society and sexism and 'pre-defined roles'!
A lot of my fellow working-mom/stay-home-dad friends have had the same experience. It's something to think about! My husband enables me to chase my dreams, but after my kids were born my goals quickly became "get home on time" and "eat dinner at home EVERY SINGLE NIGHT".
If Joe went part time while you worked full time you'd get lots of fist bumps from fellow feminists but it's harder than it looks.
- Anonymous12:25 AM
Thanks for the updates! I am a fellow female MD mum, who have been following your blog since yours & my med school days. I am currently working FT and my husband, an engineer, part time, because his job allows the flexibility and I earn quite a lot more $$-wise. I am fortunate that I have a husband who is capable of keeping track of the kids' schedules and deal with the day-to-day laundry/meals/cleaning. We may 'switch' some day, but for now, this is what works best for our family. Good luck! We look forward to more news/photos of Cal, Mack & Nina! (& the dog).ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, I often think that if Joe's career was at a different point or he had chosen a different field of medicine, he would perhaps be better suited to taking more of a childcare role than I. He's certainly more patient than I am, and he is better at really playing and working with the kids, particularly the boys.Delete
Ultimately the goal though is that my move will streamline Joe's schedule by association. Right now he plans his clinic and OR schedules around my call schedule--like he literally imports my call schedule from iCal into his clinical schedule. And it makes his time very choppy, because he tells his schedulers "you can't put any cases or appointments on after X o'clock any days my wife is on call" (works out to about twice a week, not counting weekends) and obviously it's not always the same days. Hopefully with some of these constraints lifted, HE can schedule HIS work time better, which means more efficiency which means more predictable hours at work and at home.
Sigh. The stuff they don't teach you in medical school could fill a textbook on its own.
- Anonymous3:28 AM
Somewhat long-time lurker, first-time poster. I discovered your blog (and book!) within the past year and have whiled away the time between posts sifting through your archives and laughing my butt off late at night when I should have been working on my personal statement to medical school. I myself am pretty far away from the point in your life that you're at now, but it's extremely insightful to me nonetheless to know what I'm getting myself into.ReplyDelete
Anyway, just want to let you know that your readership is not dying as you worried about in the beginning of your post! You're still providing lots of wonderful stories and perspective (and Tumblr pictures!) to the next generation of not-yet doctors.
- Anonymous7:22 AM
Kudos to you, Michelle, for being the captain of your ship. It's wonderful that you sat back and prioritized your life according to your own convictions as opposed to the all the social pressure bullshit we women are under. I am in my second year of residency and juggling two small children, my husband lives in another state and is completing his residency. When all is said and done I will most likely go part time and will flip the middle finger to anyone who thinks I am letting the team down. The only team that matters is the one I come home to each night.ReplyDelete
You and Joe deserve to live your lives with vitality and not "just making it." You have put your time in, now reap the rewards. I have been following your blog since you were finishing up med school and have even used a lot of your examples to progress forward in my own career and family managing. Thank you.
- Anonymous8:27 AM
I made a similar decision when my second child was born. I originally thought it would be just for a couple of months while I eased back in from maternity leave and now it's been almost a year. I have no desire to change it. As an added bonus, we've made a lot of new friends in the area. Before, all my free time was just with my family. Now, I meet other part-time moms and arrange play dates, etc.ReplyDelete
I think it was the year after you graduated, but Madeleine Albright came to campus and said, "You can have it all...but not at once." That's really stuck with me. There are still many years of career left after your kids are in high school/college.Replies
Totally agree. I also think that keeping a foot in things allows me to dial back up in my career if I want to when the kids are a little older. Despite the fact that on its face, this is cutting back on work, we're actually considering this an "in it for the long haul" career move.Delete
- Anonymous11:25 AM
I am a pre-med student and I have loved your blog ever since I found it several years ago. I've always admired your ability to balance family and work so when I started reading this post, I felt more and more apprehensive the longer I read. I don't have kids at this point and may never have them but I like to think that it's an option on the table. However, I also know that after all the work I have/will put into my career, it's not something I'll be giving up easily. I thought you were a prime example of how the two could coincide but as I read the beginning of the post, I was afraid perhaps it "couldn't be done" after all. So when I got to the paragraph saying you were cutting back to 3 days/week I thought, "Oh, that's not bad. I can handle that." I know I am being ridiculous since it is not my life, my family, or my job but all the same, I'm happy you found a way to continue to blend a career that you love with a family that you love. I will stop rambling and return to studying for the MCAT. Best of success to you and yours!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11:46 AM
In a completely unrelated train of thought, I think I remember seeing a post about your recommendation for comfortable all-day shoes but I can't seem to find it so maybe I am imagining things? If you did indeed have such a post and could head me in the right direction, I would appreciate it as I am currently trying to decide which shoes I should invest in next.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5:17 PM
Yes!!!! Oh what a fantastic wonderful choice! You have made the RIGHT decision (and dont be afraid to cut down on the night shifts/weekends either.).ReplyDelete
Don't care too much what your co-workers will think; think what your precious children will think! How BRILLIANT that they get to spend more time you, and you with them!! There is nothing a child wants, or needs more.
well done.
best wishes,
from one ex-medic who decided to QUIT full time medical work to be with my children
- Anonymous5:34 PM
Michelle, I have followed your blog for 8 years. You are an inspiration to me for how much you've accomplished and how much you are still juggling. I always assumed you are working part-time since your move to Atlanta. It's even more humbling to learn now that you've always been full-time. I realize that working part-time is an alien idea to those of us who have worked so hard and so long to become doctors. But our field is also full of burnt-out, unhappy people who have long stopped liking their jobs or caring for their patients. I applaud you for making this uncomfortable life decision, and I sincerely believe you will be BOTH a better parent AND doctor because of it.ReplyDelete
Long response warning! In all honesty your recent break from blogging, and then this post, have felt both inevitable and surprising. As a very long-time lurker - your mention that Cal is eight made me realise just how long, I charted your progress through training, career changes and family always a few years behind. You have always been such an excellent writer, often seeming to express the tiniest nuances of the realities of this career, and whilst it often felt like reading something by someone who knew exactly what I was going through, you did also seem to have it together so much more than I ever would!ReplyDelete
I am married but have no children, and soon after graduation I moved out of clinical medicine, for a variety of reasons. I love the field I am working in, but I am also honest about the fact that part of my decision was to do with work-life balance, and another big part was to do with the reality of hospital medicine hitting far harder than anticipated, meaning that the home life I did have was lacking in any enjoyment. I feel very lucky to be working in a role that utilises my training yet seems a much better fit for me personally.
However, I must admit your book, and blog seemed then to be a beacon in many ways of all that I could not be. As ever, your honesty and eloquence in this post has made for fascinating reading but also reassured someone a few steps behind you on the path. Reassured me that medicine, by its nature, requires many types of personality. Reassurance that however together someone else seems to have it, it isn't always the reality. Mostly, though, reassurance, that choosing life as a priority doesn't make you any worse, or any less enthusiastic about your career.
Good luck with the transition, I know it can't have been an easy decision, but congratulations on an exciting new stage for your family.
- Anonymous10:50 PM
Good luck, Michelle, and don't let anyone pressure you into going back full time until the kids are out of the house. I've been taking advantage of the work from home policy since my daughter was born 5 years ago (some might even say abusing it), and I can say every moment spent with her has been priceless. She will be starting kindergarten in the fall, and I feel a little sad to be losing our time together to the school day.ReplyDelete
Your friend from MIT,
Man, I went through a few months of nanny insanity. It was insanely stressful. Sorry you had to deal with that even if it ended up being a turning point to make things happen.ReplyDelete
Enjoy the part-time-ing. And it's okay to give yourself some time to adjust.
- Anonymous9:42 PM
Great post! Thanks for sharing what I am certain was a very difficult decision to make. It gets more fun as they get older and the big stuff that you don't want to miss is just around the corner. My youngest and Cal have the same birthday. My oldest is 13 and is changing on a daily basis. I think you're lucky to be able to have both family and career, many women cannot, in particular those with MDs, MBAs, JDs....For high profile careers, usually you are all in or all out. I am glad you were able to finagle something that works for both you, your marriage, your children, and your career. Looking forward to hearing how it all works out :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3:30 AM
Well done on dealing with a difficult time, and having the bravery of making a decision that is right for you.ReplyDelete
I recently made a change in speciality from one very time heavy with significant out of hours commitments, to one that (theoretically, in the future) would hopefully, potentially, be more flexible, with a less arduous out of hours commitment. The decision for a need to change was due to personal family circumstances. For a long time I knew something was not right. That something in the equation of all the responsibilities (work, family, etc) that I had, had to give. The question was, what had to give. Once I realised I wasn't happy for the 'give' to come from my particular family responsibility (there were few others to fill that role, whereas there were many, many others parts of a cog wheel to keep the medical machine turning), I realised it was the work bit of my life that had to change. People say that medicine is all -consuming. We know this, yet I know I didn't really fully realise how much of my life, time, focus and long term planning and prioritising it had taken up until that point.
Once that realisation occurred, it then was a fraught period of at least a year of decision making as to where would be my next career move, that would be a bit more compatible with family responsibilities.
2 years on from that time of realising, reflecting, change of direction, and a little way down this new road, I couldn't be happier with my decision now.
That's not to say I didn't have my doubts. I had colleagues express surprise at my decision, try to convince me to stay in the current field, that things could change, get better (I looked around for a long time at colleagues in different places, and realised, actually, they don't really), others told me I was 'too good' to do the other specialty, that I would be 'wasted' there..(They didn't really understand how tough and challenging the work of that other speciality could be!). On top of that, I felt this unseen pressure, and previously unacknowledged pressure as a woman to just get on and do it all.
But, once I looked upon my situation dispassionately, and looked upon my life, acknowledged the key elements, the core responsibilities, the bits that were personally important to me, and figured how I was personally going to make this work in the longer term, and keep myself not only sane, but more content and less stretched, I knew I was making the right decision for me, for now. And if someone else didn't approve? Well, they aren't the one living my life now, are they?
Mentioning that Cal had turned 8 made me reflect on how long I had been reading your blog - over 10 years!
This comment ended up being a longer one than I anticipated, but what I am trying to say is well done on the decision and the change. When looked upon dispassionately and in retrospect, the decision will not seem so difficult in time, but at the time of making the decision, it feels so difficult due to all the roles and pressures we feel, often as woman.
The thing to do remember, it is OK to prioritise family life. Work will always be there in some form, the family situation is a lot more personal and dynamic. Feel no guilt.
Thanks for the updates Michelle, and I wish you all the best!
- Anonymous6:19 PM
When I finished fellowship (cardiology), I took a part time job and never looked back. I got a lot of snide comments for it, especially from the older male attendings ("what are you doing the rest of the time? playing mommy or something useful like research?") but I kept an academic appointment, and was able to spend more time with my family. Enjoy part-time work, it's still more hours than normal people keep but you will get your sanity back. Why more doctors don't choose part-time work is beyond me. Good luck with this next phase!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:34 PM
This post totally hit the spot for me! Between looking after 9 month old twins, residency, and studying for my royal college exam in anesthesia (coming up in 2014), I am in survival mode. Fortunately for a very understanding family, we still have our heads above water. At some point, I will have to make the same decision as you have, feel the same 'career guilt', but know the end of the day I'm the only one who can mother my kids, whereas there are plenty of other people can give an anesthetic just as well. Thanks for sharing your experiences, I always enjoy reading them :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6:15 AM
Due to the content of the very start of this post, I was nervous that it was an announcement you wouldn't be blogging anymore! Obviously you will have many many things to do with your newfound time "off", but I am selfishly hoping that blogging will be one of them again. Happy everything, keep up the great work, and thanks for the update.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9:20 AM
What's the matter with two nannies? we used two for a while. it worked out great. personally, i think it's a much smaller leap to consider two than deciding on whether to use a nanny at all. one was available for emergencies when the other one got sick or took vacation. the kids loved having two different types of nannies. one would take them outside and play a lot, the other was more arts and crafty. the nannies didn't feel like they were causing a headache when they needed some time off.ReplyDelete
of course wife was already working part time by then. however as a primary care physician, her part time was like 60 hours per week. we needed them as we also both took call and had night time and weekend responsibilities. it did take a while for my wife to get comfortable with the idea of having a nanny at home while she was at home. however, that allowed her to pay bills and clean and cook and have one on one time with each kid so she got used to it. she also got to go workout and read, which improved her sense of well being immensely.
frequently i find that the choice of who works part time is based on many factors, and income (as long as there is a bare minimum) is very low on the priority list. although i'm good with my kids in 3 hour spurts, there is no way i could stay with them all day long regularly and be the same. also, obviously, professional service concerns remain, and each physician has to decide for themselves how much of their personal life they give up for when they chose medicine as a profession. Especially if they are also tasked with administrative professional responsibilities or want to participate in larger roles on societies or teach/research.
just saying you may find two nannies who work part time each a viable solution in the future as you start to juggle increasingly more after school activities and need drivers and someone to stay with the younger ones after school on days when you are both working. on the procedural side, it can be really stressful waiting for your OR time to start, when you know you have to pick up your kid somewhere at 5 pm, as you know. even you can't be in more than one place at a time. it's not how much time you are spending with them, it's also what kind of experiences do you want them to have. just food for thought.
best of luck with going part time.
it's a minor miracle you guys lasted full time this long.
- Anonymous4:22 AM
It is quite sad that in US-style medical practice, going "part-time" actually means cutting back to 40 hours/week, when you take into account the staying late, the on-calls/weekends, and all the little work things we do at home. It really doesn't have to be that way...ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1:13 PM
I'm happy to hear this =) I am also a mother in medicine but am taking a one year hiatus from training after a move across the country for husband's job, he matched. I am loving the extra time with my two year old. Returning next year in a more family friendly specialty. It is a tough transition after working so much, but the rewards of being a more involved mom make it completely worth it. Thanks for this post for all of the doctor-moms out there trying to make it work!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4:22 PM
There needs to be a major accounting of what the hell the professional class life is becoming in this country. Working 50-60 hours a week and always being on-call is exhausting whether or not you have children. I hear what people are saying when they note that it's almost always the woman going part-time, but when the choice is between grinding it out and working part time, it's not clear to me women are really losing. I wish more people would question what the goal of working people to burnout by the time they are in their 30s is? I guess money.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4:27 PM
you've got to read "the opt out generation wants back in" in nytimes this weekReplyDelete
This comment has been removed by the author.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12:58 PM
I've been following your blog for a couple years now. An older non-traditional student, I'll just be starting my m2 year at 30. To be honest, reading a post like this terrifies me in many ways. Not that I had no idea what I signed up for, but reading a blog about a family of doctors with kids, who, while very busy, seemingly "made it work" was refreshing. Obviously, I'm aware that there are sacrifices everyone makes, but to hear so honestly about the limitations faced, especially when you sort of looked up to someone as an example of someone juggling everything successfully, is sobering. I made a career change to be a doctor, because I'm so excited about it, and feel it's the best career for me, but it is frustrating that being a doctor "full-time" means a lifestyle that most would not consider conducive with the best way to raise a family. That there should be this much...guilt(?) felt when you make this kind of decision. I have to think there's a better way.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1:40 PM
After seeing (but I admit, not reading) a whole lot about "Lean In" by Melissa Mayer I couldn't stomach even reading it, already offended by what was at least publicized choice of chastizing. I don't doubt she's willing to make such career choices, but I cannot fathom the choice right for what she perceives. Ironically, a Bloomberg article, cover title "leaning out" was a counter article to the book - how so many more traditional style families (ie men as primary breadwinners) don't want it all. That having it all isn't what it's cracked up to be and that 'all' can be and should be individually defined. That more men want the chance to be with their kids, involved, and a real part of raising them like women who are more likely the jugglers...You are lucky to be given this opportunity to chase your ALL and enjoy it! You just happen to be prioritizing your family equally with your job and your definition of who you are.ReplyDelete
As a working engineering mom of 3, I am lucky my job not only allows, but also encourages a balance, but it is always manager dependent as well as subject to project demands. I fear any future unknown management structure that could swing the pendulum the other direction. I have also chosen a 'less management' focused career path as well for the balance.
I agree with anonymous above. "Lean In" offended me, and Melissa Mayer offended me when she appeared on Cosmo Radio. Do we have to be either on one end or the other of what is a pretty broad spectrum?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:52 AM
I was working part time, and once I announced my fourth pregnancy, my boss basically told me there will be no work for me after my maternity leave. I was working part time already - as you know , with three kids, it was already a juggling act and I was stretched thin... too thin....
You are so lucky you can scale back and once the kids are a little older you can go back full time if you wish.
Right now, I am unemployed, have no idea how I can find a job and worry about that.
Being home full time is HARD!
But having both a part time job and being able to be home more is I think the perfect balance and I am sure you will enjoy it!
- Anonymous5:04 PM
Hi, Michelle.ReplyDelete
I have followed your blog for several years. Glad to see everything is OK. I think you have made a great decision. I have been a full-time SAHM for nearly 13 years now. In the beginning I had little choice. My son was a 33-weeker and came home healthy. (but it was RSV season and we were ordered to keep him out of daycare). But soon it became obvious he had hypotonia (benign) gross motor and speech delays. He spent his first 5 years in speech, PT, and OT. Somebody had to be home to take him to all of those appts, and do the homework with him.
My husband worked many 50+ hour day/night/rotating shifts/overtime weeks for 9 years. Our life would not have worked without one parent at home. Oh, and we had a 2nd baby too, a 36 weeker.
Now at nearly 13, my son is an honor roll student and violin player. He is utterly non-athletic and a bit gawky, but has come such a long way from where we thought he would be. I do not regret a moment spent at home with my kids.
My only regret is walking away from my nursing career. Getting back in the door after this long is nearly impossible. You will have the best of both options in your new part-time career. --- Amanda
Congratulations and good for you! Enjoy those kids while their still little! The OR suite will STILL be there.ReplyDelete
I'm so glad to come here and read this! It seemed like in your posts leading up to now that you really wanted to make this decision but were worried about how it would look to others (aren't we all), and from an outsider's point of view it was so obviously the right thing for you guys! Because of course I can evaluate and decide your life just from a few blog posts. ;) I am happy for you and for your kiddos.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1:13 PM
Michelle, I am so happy for you and your family. I'm sure this decision will work so much better for all of you.My niece who is married and lives in New Jersey is an attorney. Her husband is also an attorney. They also have 3 small kids.All things considered it worked best for them for her husband to give up his job and be a SAHD. She loves her career and she loves her kids but she has no patience with them and he is an expert at handling them. He also likes to cook and doesn't mind housework. This was just the decision that worked best for them personally. Im so happy you and Joe have made this choice that surely will work to strengthen an already happy and healthy family.ReplyDelete
CONGRATULATIONS!! I think you will love it! I look forward to many more pictures of the kiddos, but completely understand if you do not have time (still). I cannot believe Cal is eight...this must mean I have been following your blog for more than eight years. Holy macaroni.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:58 PM
Awesome... just awesome. Will continue to read as long as you write!ReplyDelete
- Grace
- Anonymous3:02 PM
This sounds, in fact, like a great decision and one that makes perfect sense for you both now and for the "long haul." You are not in the least opting out, you and Joe are sensitive to the need to be equal partners, and to me what is most important is that you will be able to be around for your kids as they get to the age where I really do think they benefit from the steady presence of a loving parent. Weirdly, I found excellent daycare a good complement to us when my kids were young, but once they hit 8-9 or so, an involved parent(s) is really irreplaceable. Just to be there, available, supportive, demonstrating they matter. Most of the time, nothing will really be going on, but I think the willingness to take the time with them is key. Now, I am a tenured professor at an R1 university and run a research center also so my "Mom" time is always complemented with a lot of "leaning in" as well. But it is on my terms. And when they go to college, guess what, I will be cranking out a lot more research and traveling again much more. If you are really great at your job, and you put in the start up hours, you can in fact create a life that allows for meaningful, and powerful, work while at the same time privileging (not triaging) your personal life and family. So brava, Michelle! And if you do have more time for blogging, we will all be thrilled. So congrats!ReplyDelete
Hi! I am a part time doctor and full time mommy here and I just happened to stumble onto your blog one day. I was actually looking for congee recipes and came across it. Crazy. Anyway, I wish I had found this sooner, as I love your writing and it would have been great to read during the always awesome time of medical school/residency.ReplyDelete
Just wanted to say good for you! Both my husband and I are physicians so we can relate. Working part time, even with full time loans, is probably one of the best decisions I have made (right up there with the "never touch the pancreas" moto during my M3 surgery rotation)
One advice I wanted to give you (I know free advice is always wanted ;) is that you are probably going to work the same amount of hours as a normal full time person with a regular job.... stay firm on your time boundaries and even if you end up working 40hours a week...IT IS STILL WORTH IT! :)
Michelle! I have been following your blog for several years now, first as a premedical student and then as a medical student. I'm in my second week of medical school right now! Thank you for this incredibly insightful post -- I know this is something i'll have to deal with in the future and hearing REAL LIVE DOCTORS give no-bull answers about the tough choices practicing doctors have to make concerning family is refreshing.ReplyDelete
Back to studying!
I have to say I find it disturbing that your nanny (obviously defacto family to the boys) just suddenly quit. That is mind boggling to me to just up and leave those kids you have invested so much in.ReplyDelete
As far as you going to part time: you need to do what you need to do. AND it is also ok if you want to be a full time stay at home parent for awhile. No shame in putting your family first. The great thing is you picked the perfect specialty for that level èf flexibility!
Family Med Attending
- Anonymous10:41 AM
I am so glad you are writing again! We had to make this decision a in April. We were about to have a our third child and we, too, had lost a long-time nanny rather suddenly and coldly. I am a more than full-time doctor and my civilian husband decided to stay at home with the children! It is working wonderfully for us. I hope only the best for you and your family. Thank you so much for giving me so much enjoyment and support throughout the many years I have followed your blog. I found you when you were switching into Anesthesiology from Peds and were pregnant at the time. I was also starting my Anesthesiology residency several months pregnant. Ever since then you have been an inspiration - proving to me that whatever I am struggling with IS possible. I loved your book too, by the way. :)ReplyDelete
Thank you so much
- Anonymous1:48 PM
I've followed your blog since Cal was a baby, and you are an inspiration! I'm married to a surgical resident, and it is hard to get much quality family time even with only one doc in the family! Thankfully my full-time job is extremely flexible. I'm so happy for you! I'm glad you're going to get to enjoy more of the "good stuff" in life. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11:17 PM
This is the beauty of career options. As a 2-doctor family, we have made many choices to improve our home life. My husband gave up surgery residency and switched to anesthesia, because there was seemingly no end to the miserable hours. Since he finished fellowship, I have been able to work part time in primary care, and I love it. I will say that his job in a residency program is much more flexible than private practice- he is home at least 2 days per week, generally, and can make trades and request time away fairly easily. Good luck to you on your new adventure!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:36 PM
I would like for somebody to do a study on these nannies that seem so committed to these doctor kids and then up and quit NO F***ING notice. My nanny did that to me last week. WTH?!?! In other news I'm beaming from ear to ear. So happy to hear you will be spending more time with your kids. There is something super special about having a mom home to make sandwiches, cuddle when one is grumpy/scared, and/or read a book on the couch instead of in bed. I'm a surgery resident wife and my husband's hours are beyond painful. The tail end of residency is beyond bearable. Maybe we were dumb for having a kid in residency but we thought it was the next best step. We love our children we, too, just wish we could spend more quality time with them. I am a stay at home mom BUT I find myself slaving away trying to feed my underweight baby and keep up with my rowdy angry preschooler while their father is away ALL.THE.TIME. I hardly have time to cook for myself, shower or take care of the dog after I'm done feeding, bathing, caring for them. It's all ME. No family for thousands of miles. Regardless of the mommy hat one wears be it "dr mommy" or "stay at home mommy" it's all tough. I'm just so glad you made this choice for your family. Your children and your daughter will love you forever for it. (And that's nothing against other mother's who work full time). My mom worked full time. Let's just say it never gets easy watching your kids cry for you. I'm in my 30's and I cry to my mom's face and in front of my kids every time she has to fly back home after her monthly weekend visits. I wish she would just retire already and be around more. Oh well. We take what we can get. Good luck and I can't wait to hear about your adventures as a part time doc ma'!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12:33 AM
thanks for this - as a mom and MD who went part-time after the 3rd - you expressed so much of what I was going through when I went part-time. I scaled back much more than you but, what's funny, the stay-at-home/part-time mom friends are much more supportive of the decision. I feel more criticism (though indirect) from full-time women doctors. as though my personal decision was an affront to them.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12:33 AM
thanks for this - as a mom and MD who went part-time after the 3rd - you expressed so much of what I was going through when I went part-time. I scaled back much more than you but, what's funny, the stay-at-home/part-time mom friends are much more supportive of the decision. I feel more criticism (though indirect) from full-time women doctors. as though my personal decision was an affront to them.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11:26 PM
Very good article. I certainly appreciate this site. Keep writing!ReplyDelete
Need help in billing? Please visit:
Medisoft Software
- Anonymous11:21 PM
Thank you so much for sharing your journey openly. Being a mom in a two-MD family has been a huge challenge, and your comments regarding tolerating life vs enjoying it really hits home. I've never quite thought about it that way before, but I suddenly realized that I haven't enjoyed my life since before I started medical school more than eight years ago (holy cr*p, that's almost a decade). I'm finishing my radiology residency this year (and fellowship the next), and after that? I have no idea. But I appreciate you sharing your perspective and experiences. It's good food for thought.ReplyDelete
I am so happy that I chanced by here again. It's great to read your writing again. Welcome back! And congratulations on what must have been an excrutiating decision. I can relate somewhat, having withdrawn from medical school as an MS1 with a newborn. It was a decision that haunted me and tormented me for years, but over time I realize it was the best thing for all of us. And now that my oldest just started Kindergarten I am acutely aware of how this is the beginning of the end and she just took a major step away from me. I've been a reader of your blog for years and was always in awe of how you were doing it all. You are a strong person, a great physician, and an amazing mom, too. You will love this new phase of your life and spending extra time with all of your children. And when they are older you will hopefully have your pick of what you want to do. Best wishes!ReplyDelete
tory burch outlet, kate spade outlet, michael kors outlet, air max, louboutin outlet, burberry outlet, chanel handbags, michael kors outlet, coach factory outlet, louboutin, coach outlet, louboutin, ray ban sunglasses, jordan shoes, michael kors outlet, prada handbags, gucci outlet, tiffany and co, nike shoes, polo ralph lauren outlet, michael kors outlet, polo ralph lauren outlet, true religion jeans, kate spade handbags, oakley sunglasses, christian louboutin shoes, coach outlet store online, louis vuitton handbags, prada outlet, louis vuitton outlet, burberry outlet, oakley sunglasses, tiffany and co, louis vuitton outlet stores, louis vuitton outlet, louis vuitton, ray ban sunglasses, true religion jeans, nike free, longchamp handbags, coach purses, longchamp outlet, longchamp handbags, air max, michael kors outlet, michael kors outlet, oakley sunglasses cheapReplyDelete
converse pas cher, louis vuitton uk, oakley pas cher, hollister, nike roshe run, true religion outlet, sac louis vuitton, air max, sac longchamp, air max pas cher, vanessa bruno, ralph lauren, north face, nike trainers, polo lacoste, ray ban pas cher, sac burberry, air max, hogan outlet, nike air max, lululemon, barbour, nike free, sac hermes, nike roshe, sac louis vuitton, sac guess, michael kors, longchamp, michael kors, nike blazer, hollister, vans pas cher, abercrombie and fitch, ray ban sunglasses, mulberry, nike free pas cher, louis vuitton, air force, true religion outlet, louboutin, north face, new balance pas cher, nike tn, timberland, michael kors pas cher, air jordan, polo ralph laurenReplyDelete
canada goose jackets, nike roshe run, giuseppe zanotti, ugg pas cher, ferragamo shoes, nfl jerseys, jimmy choo outlet, mac cosmetics, instyler, nike huarache, canada goose, mcm handbags, reebok outlet, wedding dresses, soccer shoes, hollister, lululemon outlet, ugg, asics running shoes, uggs outlet, herve leger, ghd, bottega veneta, mont blanc, birkin bag, north face jackets, rolex watches, new balance shoes, ugg boots, canada goose outlet, p90x, beats by dre, abercrombie and fitch, longchamp, vans shoes, soccer jerseys, insanity workout, valentino shoes, ugg boots, canada goose, north face outlet, ugg australia, marc jacobs, chi flat iron, canada goose, canada goose uk, celine handbags, babyliss proReplyDelete
air max, converse, moncler, iphone 6 cases, ugg, juicy couture outlet, ralph lauren, converse shoes, pandora charms, moncler, juicy couture outlet, moncler, gucci, swarovski, karen millen, pandora charms, louboutin, thomas sabo, canada goose, swarovski crystal, oakley, lancel, toms shoes, ugg, air max, timberland boots, pandora jewelry, hollister clothing store, ray ban, links of london, wedding dresses, louis vuitton, moncler, moncler, canada goose, baseball bats, parajumpers, hollister, moncler, supra shoes, montre homme, moncler outlet, vans, rolex watches, coach outlet store online, hollisterReplyDelete
آهنگ٬ آهنگ جدید٬ بازتاب موزیک٬ دانلود آهنگ٬ دانلود آهنگ جدید٬ سایت بازتاب موزیک٬ موزیک جدیدReplyDelete
دانلود آهنگ قدیمی,دانلود موزیک ویدیو,دانلود فیلم,آهنگ قدیمی,دانلود آهنگ,دانلود آلبوم,دانلود فول آلبوم,دانلود موزیک ویدیو جدید,دانلود اهنگ جدید,دانلود اهنگ,
دانلود موزیک جدید,دانلود آهنگ
پنل تلگرام,پنل اس ام اس
پنل پیامک صوتی
نمایندگی پنل تلگرام,نمایندگی پنل واتس آپ, پنل وایبر,پنل واتس آپ, پنل تلگرام تبلیغ, پنل اس ام اس,پنل پیامک, پنل تیک تاک, خرید پنل واتس آپ,سامانه پیامک, سامانه پیام کوتاه,
شارژ ایرانسل,شارژ همراه اول,
سئو,بهینه سازی سایت,طراحی وب سایت,
خرید پنل اس ام اس,سامانه پیام کوتاه,
تبلیغات رایگان,
طراحی سایت,خرید شارژ,آگهی رایگان,خرید شارژ,
خرید شارژ مستقیم ایرانسلReplyDelete
شارژ مستقیم ایرانسل
پنل اس ام اس
تخلیه چاه
لوله بازکنی
دانلود اهنگ جدید
سامانه پیامک
دانلود فول آلبوم
دانلود موزیک ویدیو
دانلود آهنگ شاد
دانلود آهنگ ترکیه ای
دانلود آلبوم جدید
دانلود فیلم جدید
دانلود آهنگ حصین ابلیس
دانلود آهنگ زد بازی
دانلود آهنگ مهدی احمدوند
دانلود آهنگ مرتضی پاشایی
دانلود آهنگ Armin 2afm
دانلود آهنگ محسن یگانه
دانلود رپ جدید
دانلود آهنگ خارجی
بیو گرافی خواننده ها
متن آهنگ
دانلود آهنگ یاس
دانلود آهنگ بهزاد لیتو
نحوه پخش آهنگ در رادیو جوان
دانلود آهنگ وانتونزReplyDelete
دانلود آهنگ ساسی
دانلود آهنگ امیر تتلو
دانلود آهنگ محسن چاوشی
دانلود آهنگ شادمهر عقیلی
دانلود آهنگ حسین تهی
دانلود آهنگ بهزاد پکس
دانلود آهنگ سعید شایسته
دانلود آهنگ شری ام
دانلود آهنگ حمید صفت
کد آهنگ پیشواز
کد آوای انتظار
دانلود آهنگ سامان جلیلی
دانلود آهنگ حمید عسکری
دانلود آهنگ هیچکس
دانلود آهنگ بهرام
دانلود آهنگ علی بابا
شارژ مستقیم ایرانسلReplyDelete
پنل اس ام اس
دانلود اهنگ جدید
پنل اس ام اس
پنل تلگرام
سامانه پيامک
خريد شارژ
louis vuitton, cheap oakley sunglasses, oakley sunglasses, replica watches, louboutin pas cher, longchamp pas cher, nike air max, longchamp outlet, longchamp, louis vuitton, oakley sunglasses, louis vuitton outlet, prada outlet, replica watches, louis vuitton, ray ban sunglasses, nike free, ugg boots, longchamp outlet, jordan shoes, louboutin outlet, sac longchamp, kate spade outlet, nike free, oakley sunglasses, louboutin, burberry, polo ralph lauren outlet, ralph lauren pas cher, nike outlet, tiffany and co, michael kors, uggs on sale, louis vuitton outlet, ray ban sunglasses, ugg boots, nike air max, tory burch outlet, louboutin shoes, polo ralph lauren outlet, tiffany jewelry, air jordan pas cher, christian louboutin outlet, chanel handbags, ray ban sunglasses, prada handbags, oakley sunglasses, nike roshe run, air max, gucci outletReplyDelete
louis vuitton, moncler, vans, swarovski crystal, toms shoes, juicy couture outlet, ugg boots uk, karen millen, louis vuitton, replica watches, supra shoes, bottes ugg, hollister, canada goose, thomas sabo, moncler, gucci, converse, canada goose uk, doudoune canada goose, moncler, moncler, wedding dresses, canada goose, pandora charms, converse outlet, moncler, moncler, barbour jackets, canada goose outlet, coach outlet, juicy couture outlet, ugg,ugg australia,ugg italia, pandora jewelry, links of london, moncler outlet, louis vuitton, louis vuitton, pandora charms, canada goose outlet, montre pas cher, swarovski, moncler, ray ban, sac louis vuitton pas cher, lancel, pandora jewelry, ugg,uggs,uggs canada, marc jacobs, canada goose, ugg pas cherReplyDelete
burberry, lululemon, north face, ray ban uk, nike roshe, abercrombie and fitch, ugg boots, true religion jeans, michael kors outlet, ugg boots, nike blazer, michael kors outlet, nike free run uk, michael kors, true religion outlet, michael kors outlet, oakley pas cher, michael kors outlet, hollister, hermes, timberland, north face, coach outlet, nike air max, air force, kate spade handbags, michael kors, true religion jeans, burberry outlet online, mulberry, hogan, michael kors, replica handbags, lacoste pas cher, coach outlet, vanessa bruno, vans pas cher, michael kors, hollister pas cher, ralph lauren uk, sac guess, coach purses, new balance pas cher, tn pas cher, michael kors outlet, nike air max, ray ban pas cher, true religion jeans, converse pas cher, nike air maxReplyDelete
iphone 6 cases, hollister, bottega veneta, nike air max, mont blanc, iphone cases, ipad cases, ferragamo shoes, p90x workout, jimmy choo shoes, ralph lauren, oakley, nike huarache, timberland boots, iphone 5s cases, baseball bats, s5 cases, longchamp, beats by dre, hollister, iphone 6 plus cases, louboutin, asics running shoes, soccer shoes, north face outlet, mcm handbags, lululemon, chi flat iron, mac cosmetics, iphone 6s plus cases, giuseppe zanotti, instyler, ghd, vans shoes, birkin bag, nike trainers, celine handbags, reebok shoes, iphone 6s cases, herve leger, north face outlet, hollister, nike air max, new balance, babyliss, valentino shoes, wedding dresses, soccer jerseys, nfl jerseys, abercrombie and fitch, insanity workout, nike rosheReplyDelete
New Diet Taps into Pioneering Plan to Help Dieters LOSE 20 Pounds in Just 21 Days!ReplyDelete


text:
See a recap of both games from the Meadville Eagles at the MSHSAA State Basketball Championships.
Meadville Matched in Semis, Face Top-Ranked Drexel Tonight
The Meadville Eagles are playing this weekend in the first ever Final Four for a boys basketball team at the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) State Basketball Championships. The Eagles tangled with Stanberry in the semifinals, losing only their second game of the season.
A steal and a hoop from Derek Smith started scoring for the Eagles at the one minute mark of the opening frame. The teams would trade baskets from here, with Stanberry taking an early lead thanks to the first of seven three-pointers on the night. TJ Schmitz would find Cade Shiflett for a trifecta for the Meadville boys, giving the local squad back the lead. Shiflett would drain one more from downtown in the opening quarter, and the Eagles would hold a 12-11 lead at the end of the first quarter.
Smith found Blake Burkholder to open the second quarter with a solid bucket. Smith would add a basket of his own to allow the Eagles to start the frame with a 4-0 run. Stanberry and Shiflett would duel three-pointers, with Stanberry gaining the edge at the 2:45 mark to take the lead. The Eagles would battle back, and a three-pointer from Schmitz would again tie the game at the 5:24 mark. A late hoop from Stanberry would put Meadville down 27-25 at the half.
A mere 28 seconds into the second half, the Eagles' Kolton Friesner tied the game with a basket. The teams would draw even for the next two minutes of game time, with a three-pointer from Stanberry making the difference early on. Stanberry was 7-7 from downtown in this game. With less than two minutes left in the third quarter, the Eagles found themselves down by seven points. But, a quarter-ending run would close the gap to six after the third frame, 38-32.
In the final frame, the Eagles showed the fire and competitive desire that has fueled their successful program all season long. The Meadville boys opened the fourth quarter on a 10-0 run to take the lead for the first time in quite a while. The run lasted for the first three minutes of the frame, and featured buckets from Dalton Palmer and Smith. The Eagles would hold the lead for one minute of game time, until another Stanberry three-pointer put them back down by one. A 6-0 run from there would widen the deficit to four points. Smith would find Shiflett for a three-pointer of their own at the 6:47 mark, putting the Eagles within a point. But, a late 5-2 run to close out the contest would seal the fate of the Meadville boys, and send them to the third place game. Meadville lost this semifinal game by a final score of 51-47.
Eagles Fly Into Historic Fourth Place Finish
The Meadville Eagles concluded their first ever trip to the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) State Basketball Championships this past Friday at Mizzou Arena, taking on Drexel in the third place game. The Eagles fought the top-ranked team in the state, but flew valiantly into the history books as the first boys team in the storied history of Meadville basketball to go this far.
The teams opened the game scoring evenly, with Derek Smith providing the first four points for the Meadville boys. Drexel responded with a 13-0 run, ending with a Smith bucket at the 4:08 mark. Drexel went from there on a 7-0 run, ending with Derrick Knifong finding Dalton Palmer for a three-pointer at the 5:49 mark. After one quarter, Meadville trailed 30-16.
Drexel opened with a hoop to start the second frame, and TJ Schmitz responded with a three-pointer to answer for the Eagles. The teams traded buckets from here, then Drexel went on a 13-0 run to end the half. At halftime, Meadville trailed 43-24.
The Drexel run reached 17-0 with two more baskets to open the second half. Meadville ended the run with a putback from Logan Newlin at the 2:44 mark of the third quarter. After three quarters, the Eagles trailed 58-36.
The fourth and final quarter came and went, and the Meadville boys fought past foul trouble and their deficit until the very end. The boys in purple and white made their hometown proud, even in defeat, losing this game 75-50.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
... study table, the, age folding table, 1200 7 months - Bangalore, India, 469x625 in 20.7KB
Image size: 469x625
| Table Decoration Ideas
| Christmas Table Decoration
| Party Table Decoration
| Thanksgiving Table Decoration
| Easter Table Decoration
| Wedding Table Ideas
| Dessert Table Ideas
| Coffee Table Ideas
| Reception Table Ideas
| Baby Shower Table Ideas
| Dining Table Decor
| Kitchen Table Decor
| Holiday Table Decorating
| Computer Table Design
| Study Table Design
| Decorating Table Ideas
Disclaimer: We would like to let you know that some images used on this website are in the ownership of their respected owners. In order to respect fair usage policy we placed link to each and every image source to respect ownership. If you are owner of a image that you don't want displayed please contact us and we will remove image as soon as possible. Sitemap
Privacy policy


text:
Back to main gallery
Photo Ref: 3312
All pictures copyright Alan Addison, ScoUK.net. All rights reserved.
Permission for use is granted with a credit to Alan Addison, ScoUK.net.
Please contact me first and let me know where you intend to use these images.
Higher resolution images are also available on request.
2008 main page...
Snowman Rally main page...
Reccomended sites:
to top
tso - page constructed in 1.087 seconds


text:
As we get close to the big Windows Phone 8 announcement next week, certain bits of info are starting to leak out. Case in point, Verizon has been a sieve lately and now we have what looks to be some credible info on two important aspects: pricing and availability.
First up is the expected release date: Monday, November 12th. That coincides with some other info we were tipped on including Verizon employee training that is occurring now and an HTC "Save the date" for the 6th. While AT&T is presumably still beating Verizon here for a launch, it is by mere days. In fact, T-Mobile is then expected to launch their phones just 48 hours later.
Next up are devices and price points:
- Nokia Lumia 822: $99.99 (2 year contract)
- HTC 8X: $199.99 (2 year contract)
And sorry folks, there is no Samsung ATIV S, which as far as we can tell is completely MIA from the US lineup. That of course could just mean a later release due to some issues with Samsung. It also shoots a hole in PhoneArena's original tip, which stated that Verizon would get that device and the Lumia 920.
As you can see, colors are also mentioned:
- Nokia Lumia 822: White, Grey and Black
- HTC 8X: Blue, Black and Red (no Limelight Yellow)
Pricing is a bit higher than we anticipated, with the Lumia 822 coming in about $50 more than what was originally hinted at. Likewise with the HTC 8X.
Of course, things can move so until Verizon announces anything on Windows Phone 8, don't bet on it 100%.
So what does everyone think? Are prices too high? Selection not enough? Sound off in comments.
Source: Android Central


text:
Sci-fi films routinely lead viewers to believe that scanning an individual's iris is a proven way to identify them, but in practice, the results haven't always been 100% dependable. One of the most significant challenges isn't the technology, but how slight changes in the structure of the iris can throw off calculations used in comparing images of the human eye.
The long-term stability of the iris' distinguishing characteristics, critical for biometric identification, had come under question when a recent study of several hundred subjects found that iris recognition becomes increasingly difficult over a period of three years, consistent with an aging effect.
The latest in an ongoing series of studies of iris recognition for biometric identification, however, refutes that. Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have found that the unique characteristics of the iris in the average person do not change for at least nine years. The results of the study, conducted by researchers in NIST's Information Access division, suggest that iris recognition of average individuals will remain viable for decades. They also imply that identity program managers may not need to recapture iris images as frequently, which factors into the total overall cost of maintaining iris recognition systems.
The new study by NIST researchers used two large operational data sets, including one of nearly 8,000 recurrent travelers across the Canadian-American border, involving millions of images. The travelers, like the woman pictured here in a photograph supplied by the Canadian Border Services Agency, use an iris identification system to confirm the individuals' identity. The system is part of a joint Canadian and American program to help people move quickly across the border. The study examined images that had been captured at least four years and up to nine years previously. NIST researchers found no evidence of a widespread aging effect.
NIST has been working with a variety of organizations to help improve the use of iris recognition systems. In that vein, it established the Iris Exchange program in 2008. The program has sought to establish standards for iris recognition, as well as the development and deployment of systems used to capture and identify iris images. Sponsors of the program include the FBI's Criminal Justice Information System Division and the Office of Biometric Identity Management in the Department of Homeland Security.


text:
Designer - Carena Designs
I've been designing since 2007 and love realistic style. Not only do I design but I love to scrap a page myself so I know exactly what works in a kit to make stunning pages.
Facebook Fan Page: https://www.facebook.com/CarenaScrapbookDesigns
My Memories Blog: http://mymemorieswithcarena.blogspot.co.nz
Use coupon code STMMMS3764 to get $10 off MyMemories Suite & 10% off Photobooks and Photo Gifts. read more
Displaying entries 1741 - 1740 of 1427 in total
There are no products that match your search criteria.


text:
All Product Details
Seersucker Pocket Squarehttps://www.brooksbrothers.com/Seersucker-Pocket-Square/MU00151_____NAVY_ONE__SIZE,default,pd.html
$ 20.00
Please contact us by phone inside the U.S. at 800-274-1815.
Please contact us by phone outside the U.S. at 001-860-741-4800.
Please contact us by FAX at 800-274-1010.
This site is optimized for the use of Landmarks and Headings Menus of ARIA-compliant devices.
@Brooks Brothers
What we're doing and where we're going (and of course what we're wearing)Visit us on Facebook
@Brooks Brothers
Get inspired by the best #BrooksLooks (and shop them)Visit us on Instagram
Brooks Brothers
Share our passion for seasonal color palettes and stylesVisit us on Pinterest
Brooks Brothers
Go behind the scenes and learn something newVisit us on Youtube
@Brooks Brothers
Ask us a question or share a good sheep punVisit us on Twitter
Popular in
Welcome Back! As a Preferred member of My Brooks Rewards,
you'll enjoy free standard shipping on every order.
Welcome Back! As a VIP member of My Brooks Rewards,
you'll enjoy free standard shipping on every order.
$ 20.00
Seersucker pocket square made from cotton. Golden Fleece® embroidered logo. Machine wash. Imported.
We use cookies for analytics and advertising and to improve our site.
By closing this message box or continuing to use our site, you agree
to our use of cookies. To find out more, see our Privacy Policy.


text:
Hiers-Baxley to host veterans luncheon
To show appreciation for the dedicated service of veterans to this country, Tri-County Area veterans are invited to a free luncheon in their honor on Friday. Nov. 9, at the Tommy Usher Community Center in Chiefland.
The guest speaker will be retired Navy Lt. Cmdr. Elden H. Luffman. He is a former military chaplain, WWII veteran and author of "Bringing God To War."
Seating is limited so those wanting to participate should call for reservations by by Monday, Nov. 5, to Pam Leaptrot at Hiers-Baxley, 352-493-0050.
Sign up for Vets Day celebration
The city of Williston will host the 2012 Levy County Veterans Day Parade and ceremony Monday, Nov. 12.
The parade will kick off around 11 a.m. and wind its way down Noble Avenue to Heritage Park on North Main Street for a short program that will include music and guest speakers.
All veterans and their families will be treated with free hot dogs and drinks at the park. Special tributes will be given to the men and women who served in our Armed Forces.
Any organization or individual that wants to participate in the parade should contact Frances Taylor at email@example.com or call 352-528-3060.
Fiction book bunch meets
The Fiction Book Bunch will meet on Monday, Nov. 12, at 1:30 p.m. at the Cedar Key Library. Much work has been done to build an annotated list of some suggested books for the season; this compilation has been emailed to all on our Book Bunch list. If you do not have one, just email firstname.lastname@example.com; she will mail you one.
November 19
'Brave' to play at Levy public libraries
Residents are invited to join the public library staff for a fun family movie at the library. All events are free and everyone young and old is invited to attend. Mark your calendars for the 2012 Disney movie "Brave."
Determined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her bravery and her archery skills to undo a beastly curse. This movie is rated PG and has a running time of 100 minutes. Please contact your local librarian for more information.
Play dates:
• Bronson Public Library, Monday, Nov, 19, 5 p.m.
• Williston Public Library, Thursday, Nov, 29, 5 p.m.
• Luther Callaway Public Library in Chiefland, Friday, Nov. 30, 5 p.m.
November 23
Cedar Key Christmas kicks off
The annual Cedar Key Christmas Celebration will kick-off this event with a tree lighting ceremony in the Park on November 23.
Santa arrives Dec. 1 in Chiefland
The 2012 Chiefland Christmas Festival and Parade will be Saturday, Dec. 1, in downtown Chiefland at the historic train depot, Trailhead Park and the surrounding area on U.S. Highway 19 South.
The Festival will begin at 10 a.m. with the opening of booths and arts, crafts, music and activities for children. The lighted parade starts at 6 p.m., followed by the evening celebration that includes the lighting ceremony, caroling and visits with Santa. Walgreen's will be providing a photographer for pictures to be taken with Santa and Mrs. Claus. Orders can be taken at that time and a price list will be available.
Local entertainment of church choirs, musicians and other entertainers are invited to perform.
Attention all businesses, food and beverage vendors, artists, crafters and non-profit organizations — booths will be available for the following fees:
• non-profit organizations, $15,
• informational booths, $30,
• food vendors, $50 for businesses.
The deadline for applications is Nov. 19th, but remember booth availability is based on a first-come, first-serve basis.
For further information or for registration forms for the festival or Parade please call the Greater Chiefland Area Chamber of Commerce at 352-493-1849 email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Through Dec. 18
Quit Smoking Now classes
Do you smoke, dip or spit and want to quit? First Baptist Church of Bronson, 460 S. Court St., Bronson is hosting Quit Smoking Now classes from 6-7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, through Dec. 18. Free group sessions with free nicotine patches, gum or lozenges provided. This program is sponsored by the Suwannee River Area Health Education Center and the Florida Department of Health. To register, call Juanita toll free at 1-866-341-2730.
Add new comment
Read and share your thoughts on this story


text:
As I read it, the character on stage is supposed to look stupid, and the guy in the audience is being sarcastic in both of his comments.
The fun part, as many people here and elsewhere are pointing out, is that xkcd has exactly this problem nowadays, to the point that many of us think this may be thinly-veiled self mockery. Except, of course, that Randall Munroe is incapable of self-criticism and mockery and can't really take mockery or criticism from others [I am not speaking of my own, of course, because mine is the toughest of love and the hardest to accept]. Most readers have already substituted "webcomic" for "blog" in the text, and noted that silly "relationship with readers" stuff (think "get out of my head, Randall!") is exactly what makes xkcd popular these days, because we all know the content is lame.
And hey, as long as we are talking about what a blog should do and how it should interact with its readers, this seems as good a time as any to say that I am really happy with the little community that this site has built up and I try to participate in it as much as I can, because I do think that makes it more fun to read and more fun to comment, for you guys and for me. I've been really slow with e-mails these days so if you wrote me one and I didn't respond, you should probably send it again because at some point I just give up and need reminders.
In other news, my review copy of the first Problem Sleuth book came in the mail yesterday! I will write a review in the next few days. First impressions: the story loses some of the fun when it goes to print (in terms of lost animations), but it's a lot easier to follow and read.


text:
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Crusty Roasted Yellow Potatoes - Now with Extra Steps!
This time we're going the other way. I'm taking a perfectly good roasted potato recipe and adding another procedure.
The secret to these deliciously crusty potatoes is the pre-oven boiling in a salted and seasoned liquid. The potatoes not only absorb flavor and salt, but more importantly the surface of the potato cooks, which is what forms the great crunchy texture in the oven.
This is sort of the same idea behind the twice-fried French fries we featured in a video last year. By the way, it's very important to let the potatoes really dry well before coating with the oil. This will ensure a great crusty skin.
You can use this same technique, and flavor the cooking liquid any number of ways. If you like this recipe, you'll have lots of experimenting to do.
I hope you all have a fun Fourth of July planned! I'm almost done with the cured lemon quail recipe, so stay tuned for that soon. Have a safe and fabulous rest of the weekend, and as always, enjoy!
2 pounds new yellow potatoes
3 sprigs rosemary
3 cloves garlic, whole, peeled, bruised
2 bay leaves
2 tablespoon salt
2 tablespoon olive oil
pinch of cayenne
45 comments:
- d said...
Why do you cook your potatoes in a lot of water with open lid? They are best cooked in just a little bottom of water, with lid on. This increases flavor, preserves more nutritious value and also takes slightly less time due to less water getting to boiling point faster.
I have never added herbs while cooking potatoes, but it seems an excellent idea and would also work better with the technique above I think (one teabag in a tea cup makes stronger tea than one teabag in a large pot).
Nonetheless, your recipe is probably excellent, and would be perfect for a festive meal. New potatoes are now available here!
- July 4, 2010 at 6:43 AM
- milkshake said...
Turns out, precooking red potatoes before they go on the grill makes the result a lot tastier (and predictably done on the inside) - I suppose its the same thing.
I will try your yellow potato recipe tonight. Cheers!
- July 4, 2010 at 4:47 PM
Ive done a cheat variation of this method where I cut the potatoes into large fork sized chunks, par boil them in salted water, drain them and toss them with some olive oil a minced garlic clove or two and few chopped rosemary leaves before popping them in a hot oven to brown. Sometimes they smell so good at that point, I feel like forgoing the oven and just give em a squeeze of lemon juice.
- July 4, 2010 at 9:49 PM
Ive done a cheat variation of this method where I cut the potatoes into large fork sized chunks, par boil them in salted water, drain them and toss them with some olive oil a minced garlic clove or two and few chopped rosemary leaves before popping them in a hot oven to brown. Sometimes they smell so good at that point, I feel like forgoing the oven and just give em a squeeze of lemon juice.
- July 4, 2010 at 9:49 PM
- DUNPEAL said...
Great looking recipe. I will give this a shot for dinner tomorrow night.
Thanks C.J.
- July 4, 2010 at 10:38 PM
- baby cribs said...
Wow this recipe is going to be perfect for our family day this coming weekend. I watched the video and it is not that hard to make that Special Roasted Potatoes.
- July 5, 2010 at 3:47 AM
- Camilla said...
I wanted to try this one and share to my friends..hhmm, I'm sure they will all like this...
- July 5, 2010 at 4:11 AM
- Lucia said...
Actually I always do the potatoes like this when roasting because my oven is not too great so skipping this step for me means burnt uncooked potatoes. Yuck.
- July 5, 2010 at 6:27 PM
hey chef john,
wanted to let you know i LOVE your videos! yesterday one of my favourite channels "retired" and stopped making videos so i was extremely sad D:
so NEVER stop making videos or i will seriously cry :'(
you have taught me so many recipes and techniques!
- July 5, 2010 at 9:59 PM
Can I use dried rosemary as I cant get my hands on fresh at the moment?
- July 6, 2010 at 1:20 PM
- Chef John said...
of course! :-)
- July 6, 2010 at 1:26 PM
i used this technique on fingerling potatoes tonight, but totally forgot the rosemary! they were still awesome, though. http://imgur.com/fH35r.jpg
- July 6, 2010 at 8:41 PM
chef john you are so amazing!! thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge
- July 6, 2010 at 11:57 PM
Bang the potatos around the pot, not "bank" them,
- July 17, 2010 at 1:05 PM
- Chef John said...
Bang? Bank? You lost me
- July 17, 2010 at 1:10 PM
- Merdicchio said...
Hi Chef John, I am a big fan of your videos from Italy:o)
I wanted to say that I always pre-cook the potatoes before I roast them. I use a similar technique but I only boil them in salted water with a couple of spoons of vinegar, I'll definitely try this one, although I use exactly all the other ingredients (garlic, cayenne and rosemary) in the baking pan.
- September 4, 2010 at 5:18 PM
- Cheri Witmer said...
You are making my mouth water!!! Going to make these along with the Angel Hair Pasta with Broccoli and Garlic Sauce...I know I am doing double starches...but they both look so delicious, oh actually I am tripling the starch with some no knead french bread...maybe I will toss in a green salad to make me feel better! Thanks for your site, I am definately a visual learner so I have been going nuts over your recipes!
- September 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM
i do not enjoy the taste of rosemary, is there any other ingredient that i can use which will add flavor in a similar way? i am making these with a side for my moms birthday
- November 16, 2010 at 5:51 PM
- Chef John said...
what green herbs do u like? use those! ;-)
- November 16, 2010 at 7:07 PM
- Ali said...
Hello chef, can i use Italian herbs mix when i put them in the oven ?
- January 20, 2011 at 9:00 AM
Hi there! I just found your site and I'm really enjoying your videos.
I recently viewed your roasted yellow potato video and am curious to know what sort of sheet tray you use to bake these? My potatoes always stick to the sheet even if I oil it! :(
Thanks so much and I can't wait to see your other videos; they're really helpful!
- January 26, 2011 at 2:47 PM
- Chef John said...
Just a regular pan, BUT i used a silicon baking mat. Get one! They are the best.
- January 26, 2011 at 3:21 PM
Wow, thanks for responding! Silicon baking mat? Not sure if I can find that in my country but I'll look around the shops. Thanks so much!
- January 26, 2011 at 3:27 PM
- Chef John said...
If there are professional bakers in your country, they have these for sure. Or very easy to buy online.
- January 26, 2011 at 3:41 PM
I love these potatoes!!!! I've made them a lot and recently had some left over. I gotta tell you they are so-o-o-o-o-o delicious for breakfast, warmed in a frying pan and with an easy over egg--maybe some bacon.
Thank you for this method!!!
- February 17, 2011 at 6:31 PM
OK, I meant over easy egg.
- February 17, 2011 at 9:33 PM
- astaggs said...
How simple and how delicious! I never thought that boiling the potatoes beforehand would make them oh so creamy in the middle! The centers melt in your mouth. Thanks for the simple way to make roasted potatoes even better.
- March 13, 2011 at 8:56 AM
- Paul D said...
As someone who prepares Italian roasted red potatoes with rosemary and garlic often, I can't understate how GREAT this method is. On numerous occasions I have heard professionals and amateur cooks (myself included) complain that this simply recipe "goes wrong" sometimes - potatoes get stuck to the pan, too burnt on the outside, or mushy etc etc. This method is SO superior. I made them tonight - Thank you Chef.
- July 23, 2011 at 6:26 PM
- Jeriann said...
Haven't tried this yet but I do something similar, I pressure cook my sliced potatoes then pan fry them to get them crispy on the outside. Next time I'll try them in the oven. Thanks for the fun food videos! yumm!
- September 9, 2011 at 3:55 PM
- Broze said...
When you say air dry the potatoes do you mean just dry to touch on the outside or the inside dry as well? Thanks.
- November 7, 2011 at 4:11 PM
- Chef John said...
The outside :-) Drying the inside of a potato would be quite a trick!
- November 7, 2011 at 5:49 PM
- Araxjan said...
Would this work on baby white and/or baby red potatoes as well? I want to make them tonight for my husband's bday, but couldn't find any yellow potatoes at the market, please confirm!!
- December 2, 2011 at 4:30 PM
- Chef John said...
White maybe, but red are usually too waxy to get nice and crusty.
- December 2, 2011 at 4:35 PM
- Araxjan said...
Should I not take the chance and just go out and buy some yellow from another market? I just purchased like 8lbs of red and white ones yesterday, but I can figure something else out w/them.
What do you think? Should I try w/white? Or just go to another store and get yellow so it's fo sho, per se.
- December 2, 2011 at 4:39 PM
- Chef John said...
I think you should relax, and just use the white. Worst case, you just have a dish of roasted potatoes! Enjoy!
- December 2, 2011 at 5:03 PM
- Araxjan said...
Panic? Me?
... yeah -__- I'll breath in and out of a paper bag. This is going to be fine. He's gonna love it.
Everything's gonna be fine.
Everything's gonna be fine.
Everythings AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
- December 2, 2011 at 5:07 PM
i was wondering if can i fry the potatoes instead of using the oven? will there be a difference w/ regards to the taste if we grill or bake or fry the potatoes?
- December 29, 2011 at 10:48 AM
- Chef John said...
yes, but not one i could describe. all good, but different.
- December 29, 2011 at 11:19 AM
Hi Chef John. I just stumbled onto your blog via Pinterest a few days ago and I am loving your down-to-earth approach to cooking!
I made roasted potatoes last night and had a few leftover that I thought would go nicely with breakfast, but I have never had much luck reheating potatoes (other than mashed). They just end up grainy and, well, gross. Is there a trick to reheating them? Or are leftover roasted potatoes basically useless?
- January 3, 2012 at 12:23 PM
Reheating a grilled potato will come out perfectly crispy again by using an oven toaster or tubo grilling oven. I hope this suggestion will help.
- January 9, 2012 at 7:46 PM
Love this recipe! Have done it with golden potatoes, but I was wondering if using red potatoes would get the same result? I have guess coming Sunday and I'm trying to have a backup plan in case I don't spot any golden potatoes. (Veggies have been going fast lately at my grocer.) Thanks for your vids.
- August 29, 2012 at 5:15 PM
- Roland Vasquez said...
I greatly enjoy these videos.
- June 24, 2013 at 3:37 AM
- Beth said...
Do you recommend drying the potatoes on the counter or in the fridge? Approximately how long should we let them dry? Does it matter what temperature they are when they go into the oven?
- October 15, 2013 at 10:51 PM
- Chef John said...
Counter's fine! Temp doesn't really matter.
- October 16, 2013 at 4:04 AM
- gripper999 said...
These potatoes are superb. I've made them twice now. The first time I made them it took a bit longer to get my potatoes golden. The next time I made them I didn't want to use two ovens--I was pan-roasting some chicken at 475 F already whilst the potatoes dried on a rack--and I cooked the potatoes at the higher temperature. I should have left them in a bit longer but the chicken was done and we were hungry. I'm happy to report that both times they came out wonderfully. A nice bit of crust on the outside, creamy and nicely seasoned on the inside. What a wonderful technique. Thank you Chef John!
- October 21, 2015 at 10:51 PM


text:
Game Update • PC Games
Region Free
Game Update • PC / DLC • PC Games
Game Update • PC • PC / DLC • PC / Emulators • PC Games
Game Update • Games • PC • PC Games
Game Update • PC • PC Games
Remember Me
Disclaimer: 4players.org Ps4 XboxOne Xbox360 Games provides links to other sites on the Internet. Therefore, responsible for the compliance, copyright, or any other aspect of the content of other linked sites. If you have any legal issues please contact the appropriate media file owners / host sites.
|| 4PLAYERS.org
Sitemap - XBOX360 PS3 WII PC ©2012-2016


text:
I offer overseas postage to Europe and to destinations beyond (inc. US and Japan) for most items. These rates can be found on each listing by clicking on the Postage & Payments tab. Surface rate is also offered to US/Japan upon request. Paypal is my preferred method of payment but I will also accept cheques and postal orders in Pounds Sterling only (otherwise I incur a bank surcharge).
Many thanks. Anthea.


text:
Dunbar and his crew stood in the auditorium of his alma mater and spoke to the crowd of 200 people Saturday night about how everything has come "full circle."
GREENCASTLE — It was a homecoming of sorts for first-time filmmaker Koran Dunbar and his crew Saturday night as they stood in the auditorium of his alma mater and spoke to the crowd of 200 people about how everything has come "full circle."
"It started off with the school here, having dreams of being a filmmaker ... here we are 12 years later, and it's happened," he said.
Dunbar graduated from Greencastle-Antrim High School in 2000. He returned this weekend for the hometown premiere of his film "Greencastle," which he completed in 2011 and took across the country at film festivals in 2012.
The film is a "lightly salted" look at the experience of a single father, played by Dunbar, who finds love and meaning again while raising his son in the town of Greencastle.
On stage with Dunbar were his friend, fellow G-AHS alum and assistant director Waylon K. Smith and his son, Aurelius Dunbar, a G-A fifth-grader, who plays Dunbar's on-screen son.
"It's really awesome to see this played in the high school auditorium where I played on the talent show and in the drama club," Smith told the audience. "I probably never would have imagined this in high school because I was obviously going to be a rock star."
To the MAAX
Proceeds from the screening Saturday night benefited the G-A MAAX capital campaign, which is raising money to fund improvements to the school district's athletic fields that are used by a variety of sport teams and school groups throughout the year.
The screening raised $1,470 in ticket sales, and so far the campaign has raised a total of $400,000 toward its $2.5 million goal, according to chairman Vernon McCauley.
"We've been pleasantly surprised at this point," he said about the fundraising.
The pairing of the film and G-A MAAX came from the desire of Dunbar and his crew to give something back to the community that supported them during filming, said Dave Knox, sales manager for Rags 2 Riches Productions, the company which produced "Greencastle."
Knox himself is a 2001 G-AHS graduate.
"We've gotten a lot of local support. We did go to school here, our kids will go to school here. We wanted to put the money back," Knox said.
McCauley added that Dunbar had approached G-A MAAX about wanting a hometown showing of the film with the proceeds benefiting the organization.
"He had several organizations to pick from," McCauley said. "But he really liked what we were doing, and we thought it was a natural fit."