And So The Lion Fell in Love with the Lamb....

And So The Lion Fell in Love with the Lamb....

Melanie Tioleco-Cheng
Epic Read-Along

Welcome back to our EPIC read-along of Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.  When we last left our two love birds, well, they were just starting to become love birds.  In this section, Edward declares his undying/immortal love for Bella.  Wait, that didn't happen.  HE NEVER TELLS HER HE LOVES HER!  This bothered me so much the first time I read Twilight that I kept having to re-read the meadow scene.  Why can't he say the words?!!  Is it because he's a teenage boy?  Albeit, he's lived longer than I have, but vampires don't change, right? 

Defunding Planned Parenthood

Defunding Planned Parenthood

Melanie Tioleco-Cheng
Doctorly Musings

I've been reading a lot on social media and online about what happens when we defund Planned Parenthood, and what the repercussions of the new healthcare act will have on underserved populations.  I won't pretend to be a journalist and I won't pretend that I understand all the minutiae of what is going on.  But let me tell you what defunding Planned Parenthood means to me as a pediatrician. 

In my lifetime, I've had to tell two separate twelve-year-old girls that they were pregnant.  Two.  One when I was a resident one when I was an attending. 

For both, I don't know the outcome. 

xo, ox

xo, ox

Melanie Tioleco-Cheng
Dr.Bookworm Book Rec

Suffice it to say that I like palindromes.  What's a palindrome?  Something that reads the same forward and backward.  Like xo, ox by Adam Rex and illustrated by Scott Campbell, my current favorite picture book.  xo, ox is a perfect little unexpected love story that made me laugh out loud again and again.

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