Hi everyone -It's been 2 very busy months since I last posted a blog here. Winter holidays, then a busy January at work, and then our second consecutive year of snowbirding, this time in North Carolina. I have also been rethinking my website - adding new material and a blog, broadening the focus, and making some cosmetic changes. I haven't done anything with it yet. I've been absent but not permanently deployed.I had occasion to show me website to a new patient today. You can imagine my surpris

Hi everyone!Just taking a moment to check in and say hi. Winter is upon us in a horrid way ... snow...snow...snow. Well, I guess I shouldn't be surprised; it is northern Michigan, after all!My website has languished lately, as I've spent 2016 traveling for 2-3 weeks at a time, every couple of months. Working around a leisure traveling schedule probably sounds idyllic, but it does take a toll; the home days are full, and the nights are spent quieting my brain by vegging out. Not that I'm complai

So, about 2 weeks have passed since my last post, and I see that I'm in danger of falling out of the top 200. I've come to accept that that's OK, because I'm not particularly contributing anything to WA these days.I'm writing just to check in and say hi; nothing more or less. I wish I had more inclination to write, but I don't. My timeline for involvement just hasn't worked out the way I had hoped.I want to wish everyone in the US a wonderful Thanksgiving Day on Thursday.Carol (using new work

Wow!! It's been 2 months since I last checked in on WA, and I see that I've been missing some things. I've been spending my weekdays working on one thing or another, and spending a lot of my non-work time processing the myriad lessons I learned on my recent "trip of a lifetime." I've also been increasingly missing WA and the online friends I've made here, so I decided to check in. Hope all is well with all of you!!I spent 3 weeks in September visiting Mongolia, China and Tibet. I'd never bee

I arrived in China this afternoon for the start of a 19-day trip to China, Mongolia and Tibet. I don't know how often I'll check in while I'm here.I'll be back.....