Gap year, week 32
August 13, 2024
Now a change is upon us. … More Gap year, week 32
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Gap year, Week 31
August 7, 2024
…it felt like a request to join the US synchronized swimming team for a few minutes in the deep end. I’m holding my breath. … More Gap year, Week 31
Gap Year, Week 29
July 24, 2024
Thank you for taking a quick look at my Gap Year blog, the inside account of my peregrinations between 2023 and 2025, spanning a former life primarily focused on medicine and a future life of letters. Peregrination! Interesting word, coined in the 15th century: a journey, a pilgrimage, a wandering. Still, I can’t help but … More Gap Year, Week 29
Gap Year, week twenty something
July 14, 2024
Technically, still week 28, by a day. The 12-month gap, to bring any newcomers up to speed, spans from January 2024, when I was employed as a clinical geneticist, to January 2025 when I hope to be a writer, thought not yet daring to be employed. This blog is my opinionated memoir of the descent … More Gap Year, week twenty something
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 24
June 17, 2024
Very close to the summer solstice and half way through my one-year voyage between a full-time clinical genetics practice and something to do with writing. These Gap Year posts are my secret diary (OK, not secret secret). Writers seem to be in their meeting season, though that may well be a year-long pastime. Recently I … More Gap Year: Week 24
Gap Year, Week 22
June 7, 2024
“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”
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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 20
May 21, 2024
No frills. Busy reading. I am making up for years lost, years focused on 10-page medical review articles, chapters on next-generation sequencing, neurofibromatosis, Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome. For at least a decade, the number of novels read per year has been in the low single digits. If there is to be a transition to a life as … More Gap year, week 20
Scott D. McLean, MD 