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It’s been a hard few months, and I just couldn’t settle down to write much this week.

I’ll just wish a Happy Birthday to the US of A, and hope that you are having a safe and happy holiday.

Last week was super busy and challenging.

I had absolutely no time to write a longer and thoughtful blog post. Instead, I offer a melange of financial updates and observations, and some referrals.

Continue reading “Monday Melange: Ailing Parents, Automobile Absurdities & Links I Loved”

If you are reading this, I am taking my first trip away since COVID hit.

See you on my return to the Internet!

Some recent…weather… and associated power outages not only delayed my weekly post, but also gave me the opportunity to reflect on some of the best wedding gifts Mr. PiN and I received many moons ago.

I think peak wedding season is coming to an end, but if you aren’t sure what to give as a present–or what to ask for–here are my favorites, seen through a retrospective lens. I have linked to my favorite items, or similar options, but these are not affiliate links. I get no monetary benefit if you decide you want to buy any of these.

Continue reading “The 7 Best Wedding Gifts”

My eyes are protesting my computer work, and I will not finish my new post this week (I suspect my Fitness Log will show up Friday).

For your amusement, footage from the Nautilus of an octopus garden. Unclear if it is in the rain.

https://nautiluslive.org/video/2018/10/24/massive-aggregations-octopus-brooding-near-shimmering-seeps

If you are reading this, I am taking a few days off for R&R.

See you next week!

I can’t quite believe it, but last week I published my 100th blog post.

I never published my 6-month anniversary post, so today I wanted to review all those 100 posts. Hold on to your hat!

Continue reading “100 Blog Posts”

Apparently, updating my computer meant I wasn’t able to get online for some time. Which meant I didn’t finish the post for today.

Wednesday’s post should appear on time.

Time is a little short these days, what with work and the holidays.  I decided to list several posts that I found inspiring in that they actually made me do something.

This post by Angela at Tread Lightly, Retire Early about the male-centric culture of personal finance blogs, and the list of female bloggers, was one of the posts that inspired me to start this blog.

Several more posts inspired me to get a website and start Physician in Numbers in earnest: this Fincon wrap up from Miss Bonnie MD, and this post about imposter syndrome from Chief Mom Officer.

Chief Mom Officer also inspired me in a different way about one year ago: her post about making a photo book for her grandmother.  I’ve given one to my father, who says he “isn’t in the accumulation stage anymore,”  but who seems happy to have photos taken of and by family.

More inspiring in the mind-changing way was this post (nearly 3 years old!) by Maggie at Northern Expenditure.  She wrote about the “fill-the-bucket list,” which I find a useful exercise in my own life.  It helps foster gratitude rather than envy or regret.  

The first post.  On the first page of my first blog.  So far with zero readers, until you.

Already we have lots of numbers!

As a primary care physician, I see numbers all the time: vitals, labs, ages, costs.  Report cards on panel size, metrics met, satisfaction scored.

As someone interested in personal finance, I read about savings rates, investment returns, safe withdrawal rates, financial independence and “the Number.”  As someone interested in travel, I hear about frequent flyer miles, airfares, countries traveled.  As a woman in the USA who consumes mass media, I think about clothing sizes, calories to cut (or eat), steps logged, items to buy, items to purge.

As a woman, I have seen fewer writers like me blogging about these subjects, but that is changing.

I hope to write about numbers, lots of numbers, but also to include some of the stories that go with them: how do real people make these numbers work, what do we do when they don’t work so neatly.

For now, I plan to remain anonymous, keeping in mind that sometimes things change.  I’d like to keep things civil and professional here; somehow that always seems like a good policy.

So, let us voyage into this blogging adventure together, my #1 reader….