A female primary care physician opines on money, travel, fitness, and other topics to be determined
If all goes well, I will be at WCICON in Orlando next week, learning about personal finance, physician wellness, and meeting new people. Shoot me an e-mail if you will be there and would like to say hi in person!
In the meantime, I have a short list of my favorite posts from January for you to enjoy.
Continue reading “My Favorite Posts By Other People, January 2024”I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 5 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 #271, Friday Firsts And Fabulousness”Every year, for over 20 years, I take time at the end of the year to look at my finances. (Now “our finances,” but considering who does most of the number crunching, I will continue in the first person for this post.)
I calculate my liquid worth, I review my spending in the year just past, and then take a look at my savings goals for the coming year.
I think these exercises have been helpful over the years, and not just because they tend to keep me off the roads around a dangerous holiday. They keep me honest about my debts and spending, and force me to prioritize financial goals over the coming year.
I will go through the net worth and savings goals for 2023 below; a review of the yearly spending takes longer, and should show up within the next month, if all goes well.
(Just to be clear: I am not posting my net worth on the Internet. Even though this is supposed to be an anonymous blog, I have been asked by Mr. PiN not to put our real numbers out there.)
Continue reading “Updating My Net Worth For 2023”I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 5 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 #270, Friday Firsts, Fabulousness, And Monthly Goals”Not long after the start of this blog, I cut my hours very slightly, and wanted to make sure I didn’t waste the extra time I was paying dearly for. I had started reading about preparing for retirement in non-financial ways, and I realized that it was time to start (re-) building a life that didn’t revolve solely around medicine.
I started this series of posts at the end of October 2018 with lots of big goals, but even at the beginning, knew that I couldn’t follow all those dreams all at once.
Every few months, I try to look at what I have accomplished, and see if I can adjust course to focus my free time in the directions I wish I would go: increasing fitness, building (or maintaining) connections with friends, family and community, engaging with the arts, and, lately, keeping up with financial tasks.
My last update was in October 2023. I’m trying to be a little more regular in my updates.
How did I do over the past 3 months?
Continue reading “Future Me, January 2024”I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 5 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 #269 And Fabulousness”I read many blog posts each day. They mostly on personal finance, but also on minimalism and travel . Here are some of my favorites that I read in December.
Continue reading “My Favorite Posts By Other People, December 2023”I have been keeping track of my exercise every Friday for 5 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 #268 And Friday Fabulousness”Two weeks ago, I finished my year of prayer after my father’s death.
It wasn’t fun, or convenient, but it was something I wanted to do. I incorporated it into my weekly schedule, and I went.
Until, suddenly, it was over.
I no longer have to go. I don’t have to feel guilty if I miss a service. I could stop going altogether, and yet…
For years, I had wanted to go to services more often. This has been a goal on my Future Me list since I started it. The first day or two that I didn’t attend, I felt oddly adrift.
Maybe I still want to go? Though not maybe not every day?
Which leads to the bigger question: what else do I want to keep from my past year, and what do I want to leave behind? What do I want to do more of in 2024?
Continue reading “2023 In Review: Endings And Beginnings”