Gap Year: Week 6
February 12, 2024
For the better part of a year I’ve been thinking about an MFA in writing. … More Gap Year: Week 6
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Gap Year: Week 5
February 5, 2024
Ontology and cheeseburgers! Last week we skied Crested Butte (Colorado) and Taos (New Mexico) on bluesky mornings and afternoons, almost spring temperatures, to the point that a few snowboarders at the top of Siver Queen Express opted to honor their bravado and pectorales majores by not wearing shirts. No, I doubt they bothered with sunscreen. … More Gap Year: Week 5
Gap Year: Week 4
January 29, 2024
On 8 January 2024 I retired from a career in medicine and am taking this next year to gather forces, or hoist myself by my own petards, before undertaking another crazy line of work. We are now winding up the first month of the gap year journey. We have spent the last week of January … More Gap Year: Week 4
Gap Year: January 22, 2024
January 22, 2024
We are getting used to Summit County, Colorado. Over the past 2 weeks we have skied Breckenridge, Keystone, Arapahoe Basin, and Vail. The idea is to get better, and today we were happily – well, maybe not happily, but with a modicum of attenuated terror – handling bumps and blacks. And minimal injuries! All I … More Gap Year: January 22, 2024
Gap Year: January 15, 2024
January 15, 2024
Late lunch at Bread and Salt in Frisco. Paula and I walked down 5th to Main, the windy snow at our backs, the atmosphere January grey. Curbside seating was not offered. The patio chairs and bistro tables were mounded with a cubit of snow, the yellow umbrellas furled and resentful of the chill and desertion. … More Gap Year: January 15, 2024
Gap year : week one
January 8, 2024
I’m taking a gap year. Yes, I think I’ve earned it. Perhaps it’s more like a sabbatical. No, let’s call it a gap year. Such 12-month vacations didn’t become popular or common until I was well past high school graduation in 1973. Back in the early 70s, if you decided to knock around after 12th … More Gap year : week one
Scott D. McLean, MD 