Structure

How to structure life in retirement is a question I will spend hopefully years answering. This blog will be a part. I intend to return to it and resurrect some old posts, add new ones detailing both my experiences through my career and answering this “what’s next?” question. It has been said that one picture is worth a thousand words. I hope to tell much of the rest of my life in the art I produce but here are morning photos from my studio previously our eldest son’s bedroom.

Back to work  retirement.

Transitions

There have been many transitions in my life and in my career but none so definitive as leaving the practice of medicine. I reflect on this daily having begun to make the decision two years ago and now in the final weeks I am sure. I am glad that I am walking away and not being forced out. I am honored that there are people who are sad I am leaving rather than relieved to see me go.

Where am I going? Home mostly - a place that I made but never enjoyed as much as now. Ask my dog - I sketched his picture for you in pastels here

His name is “Jimmy” and he has become my muse as I purse drawing and painting. Another title I have given him is studio assistant. He is currently sound asleep by my side. 

My goal is to have more to say about the past, the present and the future in the days to come as I remain “the local MD.”

Wouldn't it be nice...

...if there were as much of an uproar in this country over say, gun violence, as there has been over Ebola?  I could pick several other topics for Congress, our state and local governments to get as serious as those institutions have been in the last two weeks about the threat of this disease in the past two weeks.