how lucky

Listening to John Prine’s Spotify channel last night got me thinking about a project I started years ago and now might be about time to deploy.   I’ll link John’s song about this at the end, but first let me relate the details. From my birth I’ve been lucky.  After a while you wonder what the pattern means.Continue reading “how lucky”

Docere day?

My dear wife flew pretty high around the turn of the century as NASA’s Chief Scientist, an experience that informed the motivationql speeches she took to giving after her tenure there.  To handle the proceeds from her efforts, she formed an LLC, Docere (doh-kaý-rah; from the Latin “to teach”).  Over the years, we’ve taking to running anyContinue reading “Docere day?”

quaternary

Hello to my dozens of readers and anyone else looking in. The term quaternary refers to the fourth order in a series.  As a lifelong striving academic, I’m well aware of the quaternary milestones of graduation from high school, college, and medical school.  The rhythm gets fuzzy after that: residencies – at least for internal medicine –Continue reading “quaternary”

makin’ t-shirts

Ya never know what hobbies might rise to bite ya in retirement.  All that brain power that used to go to the job now is free to take on God-knows-what.  I never thought I’d pick up an iron again.  Heck, all my white shirts were perm press, so I didn’t even need it for that.  But add in anContinue reading “makin’ t-shirts”