Table for One

 A few years ago, I read a vacation post by a blogger-who-shall-not-be-named that really pissed me off.  Said blogger retired in his 30s, ha...

                                                              My relationship with budgets has varied a lot over the course of my adult li...

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...

I don't think I knew just how focused I was on my FIRE date until I started actively trying to not think about it.  Since adopting the ...

I am really lucky to have had a Dad who was an insurance salesperson and later a financial advisor.  From the time I was a kid, we had long ...

Once a month or so, I do an extra Friday afternoon clinic in a different location from my usual clinics.  It involves rushing out as soon as...

It has been just over one year since I reached a net worth of zero.  After being in debt for almost ten years, it has been a welcome cha...

As a resident, I couldn't wait for the day that I would be an attending and would get to do fewer call shifts.  In my last two years of ...

Subtitle:  Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion Just over a year ago, I wrote smugly about how I had gotten c...

It will probably come as no surprise to anyone who reads my blog that I am feeling pretty burnt out at the moment, as the few posts that I...

When I wrote my most recent blog post , I was feeling a little bit smug about how well my life was going.  I was exercising, I was feeling c...

My budget is currently sitting at $294.13 in the red.  A year ago, when I was just starting to work and I was trying to dig myself out of ni...

Years ago, soon after I had started medical school, a friend of mine who is a physician came in from out of town for a visit.  During his st...

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...

I'm sitting in a hotel room in Montreal, awaiting dinner with a friend (in 1 hour) and the start of a conference (tomorrow morning), and...

"Among my colleagues I see an emotional emptiness created by the relentless consideration of money.  Most of us went into medicine for...