Hard to believe that 2 weeks ago, I was taking stock of Day #3 of Job #4. I had to count, recount, and consult the calendar to confirm that this is, in fact, a truth hardly believed. In new environments and unfamiliar places, time moves in slowest motion. That may be the only explanation that…

Scores of new faces. New documentation systems on old computers. Old computers and systems that crash and force you to see the afternoon's patients "blind" (what was your name again?) and revert to paper documentation. New billing style. New parking lots. New traffic patterns. New January weather (no jacket? A/C??). New grocery stores. New bed, new…

We woke before the long night was over, packing our white sleigh with provisions to feed many more than the four passengers loading up on this first day of winter. The winter solstice: the shortest day of the year. As the daylight carves out a shorter chunk of Earth's 24 hour spin, night grows ever…