Be Better Than Good Enough
The coursework was done and only a few clinicals separated me from graduation. I knew I was so close to the finish line. However, one of those final clinicals was not what I wanted nor what I expected. There were a lot of aspects I didn’t like and I was […]
The other week, I got home and noticed a cocoon in the bush outside my apartment. I looked closer and watched a caterpillar collecting pine needles off the bush. I realized that I had never seen this before. I had never actually witnessed a caterpillar building a cocoon. I couldn’t […]
I don’t feel like writing this tonight. I’ve been struggling all week to write for one reason or another. This is the closest I’ve come to not posting and I’m unsettled by that truth. I struggle with consistency and I have my whole life. When I was younger I’d assemble only […]
Three quarters of the way to fifty-two books. Last year, I set out to do 52 books in 52 weeks, but I fell short reading 38 books. Now, I’ve hit 39. These last thirteen books I read were all recommendations from others and they were awesome (so thank you!). Check […]
“You seem tired,” she told me. I was tired. It was the Monday morning after my residency interview in Indiana, my boards were in two weeks, and I had been in the car fourteen hours the day before. But, the comment still bothered me. I was not my usual self […]
At my first high school weekend job, I ate lunch alone every shift. It didn’t start out that way, but it ended that way. The first few weeks I ate in the break room of the store, but I gradually transitioned to a picnic table across the street. I told the […]
This past weekend, as I hurried to make it to the afternoon lecture at Perform Better, they caught my eye. The three of them stood around a table talking. I couldn’t hear what was being said, but I imagined it as a highly intelligent conversation amongst three experts in the […]
“We can go home if we can get all the landmarks right on one more bone,” Laura proclaimed after our four hour study session in the cadaver lab. I agreed. Tomorrow was our first practical in anatomy and also our first exam of PT school. We were ready. So, we reached […]
“We are gonna go down to Nashville on Friday, you in?” my friend asked. “Nah, I’m going to be too tired.” My friend laughed because it was Tuesday and I already knew I was going to be too tired on Friday. My first year out of school was a […]
“LET’S GO!! WE ARE GOING TO MISS THEM!!” my roommate shrieked on Saturday morning. I knew exactly what this meant and before I knew it we were running out of the dorms, across the lawn and to the cafeteria. It was 11:51 am and we had exactly nine minutes to get to […]