Table for One

Like any good HSP , I don't like to be too busy.  Long to-do lists and piles of unfinished work make me anxious.  Extended periods on ca...

At least once a week, someone will ask me when I'm going to buy a home.  It started in residency, and it has increased in frequency with...

Despite the winter solstice being over a month away, it is already cold and dark here.  Which means that when I'm not at work, I'm h...

A few months ago, I was faced with the decision between going to a scientific conference in Boston this Fall or one in Paris in the Spring. ...

It took three flights, almost 24 hours, and a small meltdown in the Frankfurt airport, but my girlfriend and I are now comfortably settled i...

One of the best people I met during my fellowship training was our Educational Coordinator, S*.  S is slightly older than I am** and married...

This post is a little late.  I've been scrambling a bit to catch up on everything that didn't get done while I was in Montreal, and ...

I spend far too much time thinking about money. At work, I keep track of every one of my patient encounters, ostensibly to ensure that I...

It's the evening before I return to work, and my feelings are alternating between excited and distraught and absolutely terrified.  It d...

On day 19/21 (yesterday), I somehow forgot to write a blog post.  I spent my day finishing off Barbara Kingsolver's " Animal, Veget...

Because nothing says vacation like dealing with your finances, I spent most of my morning today figuring out a strategy for getting myself t...

Continuing on from yesterday , here are two more things that I've learned over the past ten months. Money can buy freedom: When look...

As the completion of my training approached, I noticed that people began asking me a lot of the same questions. "Are you going to buy...

I had expected my vacation to be laid-back and leisurely, with an abundance of time for sleeping in and reading and doing whatever in the wo...

Sometimes I'm an idiot. I know from almost 38 years of living as myself that I don't enjoy being overly busy.  I can handle a lot ...