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The interview tell

It was the summer before my last year of medical school and I was traveling around the US for family practice residency interviews. My wife and I were staying with some of her college friends while I looked at a program in Denver.

Happy New Year

Three years and ~ 250 posts ago I started doing this, wondering if I would be able to find things to write about. As it turns out, that was the wrong question. A better question would have been, would I care enough to keep writing. So far, the answer is a resounding yes. My plan for the next year is to keep questioning so I can keep learning and growing. The future has a way of sneaking up on us like a windshield on a bug.

I hope you all have a wonder-full New Year, and that all your answers lead to better questions.

Peter

 


 

 

Giving thanks on Tahnksgiving

Dear Universe.

Happy Thanksgiving.  I am truly thankful, and here is a partial list of my reasons:

1. I won the lottery. No, not the one at the corner store. I mean being born at this time in history in the US and to parents who cared deeply about their children and the future and had the wherewithal to give me a good start.

2. My health. As a physician for the last 35 years, I am all too well aware of how tragic and undeserved ill-health can be. 

Lessons from a granddaughter...

Playing with my three year old granddaughter is teaching me to be mindful of whose world I am in, and to behave accordingly. 

 

In her world, she is the native and I am a tourist. The rules and customs are hers. Things go well when I can relax and let the native guide me. My attempts to impose customs or rules from my world on her world fail spectacularly. As they should.