This past month, the national medical residency match occurred. If you're not familiar, it's where all US medical students, who interviewed with different residency programs in their chosen specialties and ranked them in order of which they'd like to attend, learn the fate of their next 3-7 years. …
Be Your Own Valentine
Do you love yourself? Do you want to improve yourself? And can these two things exist together?The other day I walked into the gym locker room. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a woman looking at me as she gathered her belongings. Then she said to me, "Your legs are absolutely perfect. Amazing." …
2018 In Review
At the beginning of this year, I constructed a list of “18 for 2018” (small and large goals to be completed a la Gretchen Rubin, discussed in an earlier post). My completion rate was decent: of the 18 items, I definitively completed 14, initiated/partially did 2, and did not complete …
Life as a Series of Sabbaticals
I'm 44, and in my adult life I've taken something like six "sabbaticals".Upon hearing the word sabbatical, one traditionally thinks of a university professor taking a paid leave for one year, approximately every seven years, in order to complete a special project or write a book. But the best …
