family

Tag

How coming to America changed my family

If you look up the definition of "family" in most dictionaries it usually involves the words " parents" or "parent" plus "children". It is inferred that the parent raised the children or lives with the children to form a bond or unit or family. To be honest, the traditional definition of family does not always reflect society today. As you know, the family may not always involve people who share the same biology or genetics. Family may not always mean…

Fall 2019 : An update on my life and blog

It has been awhile since I last wrote a blog post or life update and so much has happened since then!  For example, last fall in 2018 my father visited from Nigeria for the first time in about 30 years!  Yes that was interesting. Then there was the time I worked and lived in South Carolina for 6 months as a locum Internal Medicine physician. This May our second son, Karim, graduated from high school and started college. We moved…