A female primary care physician opines on money, travel, fitness, and other topics to be determined
Mr. PiN is nearing the completion of a project which has taken almost all of his attention for many months.
I have tried to support him, but somehow find that these last few weeks (especially the last 7 days) have been incredibly difficult for me.
Suddenly, all the sacrifices we have made are overshadowed by urgent tasks that keep popping up at our home, some of which I truly can’t take care of on my own.
Continue reading “Holding The Course”I read many blog posts each day. They mostly focus on personal finance, but also on minimalism and travel . Here are some of my favorite posts I read in June and July.
Continue reading “My Favorite Posts By Other People, June/July 2026”I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 7 years, and plan to continue doing so.
Since the pandemic started, I have been keeping track of “firsts,” and more lately, I have been trying to note good things (“fabulousness”). It’s a good way to pay attention and not let life slide by.
Continue reading “Fitness Log #402, And Friday Firsts”I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 7 years, and plan to continue doing so.
Since the pandemic started, I have been keeping track of “firsts,” and more lately, I have been trying to note good things (“fabulousness”). It’s a good way to pay attention and not let life slide by.
Continue reading “Fitness Log #403, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness”It’s been just over a year since I cut out my Monday clinic, and started keeping track of what I did with that extra day out of the office.
Not counting hospital weeks (when I didn’t get anything close to a day off), vacations (when I was going to be out of the office anyway), and national holidays falling on a Monday, I ended up with 31 Mondays that were extra days “off.”
I had high hopes of practicing the retired life on these days, and using that time to pursue projects or activities I usually can’t pursue on a week day.
Looking back at my reports on those 31 Mondays, what did I actually end up doing?
Continue reading “A Month Of Mondays”I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 7 years, and plan to continue doing so.
Since the pandemic started, I have been keeping track of “firsts,” and more lately, I have been trying to note good things (“fabulousness”). It’s a good way to pay attention and not let life slide by.
Continue reading “Fitness Log #401, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness”You may have noticed I haven’t been posting much beyond my Fitness Logs recently.
This is mainly because I have been working in the hospital. A lot.
Hospital weeks are always intense, with plenty of sick patients, the need to supervise residents and teach medical students. There’s also the whole no-days-off thing.
So you may imagine that I wasn’t particularly thrilled to be pulled in for emergency coverage soon after finishing my own scheduled stint in the hospital.
I was already sleep-deprived. The house was a mess after my last hospital rotation. I had a full schedule of clinic patients who needed to be rescheduled.
What kept me going throughout that week was an email from my boss, reminding me that I would get a bonus for this extra work.
Continue reading “The Golden Carrot”I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 7 years, and plan to continue doing so.
Since the pandemic started, I have been keeping track of “firsts,” and more lately, I have been trying to note good things (“fabulousness”). It’s a good way to pay attention and not let life slide by.
Continue reading “Fitness Log #400, Friday Firsts, Fabulousness, And Monthly Goals”I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 7 years, and plan to continue doing so.
Since the pandemic started, I have been keeping track of “firsts,” and more lately, I have been trying to note good things (“fabulousness”). It’s a good way to pay attention and not let life slide by.
Continue reading “Fitness Log #399, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness”I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 7 years, and plan to continue doing so.
Since the pandemic started, I have been keeping track of “firsts,” and more lately, I have been trying to note good things (“fabulousness”). It’s a good way to pay attention and not let life slide by.
Continue reading “Fitness Log #398, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness”