I speak fluent snark. “Dark and twisty” is my love language.

Think back to your last summer vacation. What made it so great? How can you incorporate those things into daily life now?

Try it, find out what you’re thinking, and figure out what it means.

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”

Just like life ratchets up slowly to reach infuriating levels, it can’t be flipped back to the best-case scenario in the blink of an eye.

Happy New Year! It's the first week of July, the time of year we all collectively level up in academic medicine.

I was POP Rewards member (IYKYK) with junk drawers and entire junk closets 🤫

Am I in a cult? Am I peddling loud-patterned leggings for the soul?

“It’s better to be lucky than good.” I have no clue where I first heard this phrase…

Treading water is exhausting.

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks either being run by my schedule or recovering from being run by it…

I used to think there were three medical generations: faculty, residents, and students.

Those I’ve seen in the past week know I’m in my blonde era. Kind of. Sort of.

What if the decisions we face aren’t sure bets?

I recently had the opportunity to drive for eight hours. I haven’t driven that many hours straight in a long time.

ou don’t have to solve every problem everywhere.  The reality is that you can’t, no matter how efficient, how intelligent, how big-hearted you are.  So, narrow it down.  And then make it simple.      

What is the actual point of anger? Or blinding indignation? There must be some point to them, right? Evolutionarily, they must serve some purpose; otherwise, negative emotions would’ve been bred out over the millennia. I’m asking because my life has been very life-y the past couple of months, and I’ve been in a constant state of rage.

Is the end of the academic year beginning already? For me, it's been sneaking in the past couple of weeks. First, it was a warm and sunny day here and there.

I argue with reality. Not in an interacting with hallucinations sort of way, but in a much more insidious “It shouldn’t be this way” kind of way.

Who’s your work best friend? Or, better yet, do you have any tenured friends?