Author: sajimone

Once a year — usually without planning it, and always with some amount of caloric regret — we take the kids to the Epcot Food & Wine Festival. This year, it had been a few years since our last visit. Life happened. Work, school, the general vortex of family schedules. But this past weekend, the…

There are certain milestones as parents that we know are coming but still somehow feel completely unprepared for. Potty training. Middle school drama. College applications. And then there’s teaching your kids how to drive. Right now, that’s where my family is living. My two girls Sanji and Simran are 17 and 18. Both are wonderful,…

We’ve had an incredible year of travel — one of the best I can remember. From Iceland to Japan, a few cruises, intermittent locums to Montana and West Virginia, and now, a week in Switzerland to cap off a family wedding trip in New York. It’s been a year of movement, reflection, and above all,…

There’s a saying I live by: work hard, play hard. And for a week and a half this summer, we did just that. After months of clinical work, legal consults, and nonstop travel, we finally hit pause and jumped into celebration mode. And what better place to do that than at a Punjabi wedding in…

As a medical oncologist, I’ve dedicated the past two decades to the rigorous, deeply rewarding world of cancer care—guiding patients through treatment decisions, contributing to clinical research, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across institutions. Leaving my busy 14-year clinical practice was one of the best decisions I’ve made, creating space for personal, mental, and spiritual…