Gap Year, Week 50
December 26, 2024
Infinity is our fate, whether we realize it or not. … More Gap Year, Week 50
Category: Autobiography
Gap Year, Week 46
November 26, 2024
Reindeer began nibbling the grass in our neighborhood just after Labor day. … More Gap Year, Week 46
Gap Year – Week 44
November 17, 2024
Don’t know exactly what’s going to happen? Good. A little scared? Good. Does the possibility of failure exceed single digits? Even better. … More Gap Year – Week 44
Gap year, week 32
August 13, 2024
Now a change is upon us. … More Gap year, week 32
Gap Year. Week 27.
July 4, 2024
Happy 4th of July. I lift my cup of cool pink lemonade and offer a toast: To freedom. And the character to preserve it. … More Gap Year. Week 27.
Gap Year, Week 26
June 28, 2024
Now we wait. … More Gap Year, Week 26
Gap Year, Week 22
June 7, 2024
“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”
… More Gap Year, Week 22
Gap Year, Week XXI
May 28, 2024
Memorial Day is in the rearview mirror, and the summer of my Gap Year is officially here. This is shaping up to be the most important phase of the journey as I begin to seriously work on applications to low-residency MFA programs in creative writing. My heart and mind, though, remain anchored in clinical genetics. … More Gap Year, Week XXI
Gap year, week unknown
May 5, 2024
Since January I have been on this interesting journey from medicine to writing. Since Week 15, my last posting in mid-April, I have been distracted from writing by the best of all excuses – adventure and exploration, friends and family, haunts old and new. The photo here is moonrise over the Mississippi, from the shore … More Gap year, week unknown
Gap year. Week 13.
April 1, 2024
Gap Year – Week 13 I am a quarter of the way through this gap year, the 12 months between fanatical obsession with exome sequencing and full-time dedication to the writing life. The past few weeks we have focused on a new adventure – Van Life. My wife and I have been thinking about this … More Gap year. Week 13.
Scott D. McLean, MD 