Day 17 - Prompted

I couldn't think of anything specific to write about tonight, so I decided to see what the NaBloPoMo topic was.  Last year, close to this time, I wrote what I thought would be a post that would get a lot of comments.  A year later, close to a thousand reads on both my blog and on BlogHer and two comments...

You see, being an ED physician, we're on the front line of medical care.  We are the "gate keepers" to the hospital.  And, on occasion, we get very frustrated with what we see come into the emergency department.  We see the good, the bad and the ugly.  We see the best of people, and we see the worst that people can do to each other.  There are times when we wish for mandatory sterilization and the requirement of government permits to allow people to have children.  There are times when we wish we could enact frontier justice, but we can't... because we are bound by a higher oath to care for others.

Regardless, here's a link to the post I wrote.  Let's see if this time it garners a little more discussion.  Talk amoungst yourselves.

Weeping for the Future 

#123 - The First Day

It's that time of year again...!

NAtional BLOg POsting MOnth...!

I've done it every year for the last several years.

Really want to get to the point where I can do the NaNoWriMo,

where you write a novel over the next month,

but I still can't get my timing right... 

sigh, maybe next year...

Regardless, thanks for visiting my little spot

of the interweb and reading my daily musing.

Since, this is the time of year I get a lot of new readers,

I thought I would tell you a little about myself and my

little world.

To start, I'm a doctor.

An Emergency Medicine doctor.

That means that I work in the Emergency Department

of several hospitals in both Northern California where I live

and in Sacramento where I have been traveling to for the last year.

I live in a small country town where cows just might

outnumber people, and where it's usually rainy,

except for this year, where we had an unusually mild winter and long summer.

We bought our house about three years ago,

and have been doing A LOT of work on it to make it a home.

But we do enjoy the views.

And the dogs, Dixie (red) and Dillon (blue) do enjoy

having many acres to run around on

and a river and beach close by to run on as well.

Plus they have their own blog which you can read here:

Livin' La Vida Dog

Some of my friends say they travel more than anyone they know...

cause they do...

cause we do...

Like our 3,000 mile National Park tour

from this summer...

Work hard, and play hard...

and, although I might sometimes be a little 

irreverent, you have to remember

that

I see a lot of people on the worst day of their life

and try my hardest to not let it be the last day of their life.

I hope you'll enjoy this month-long journey...

and, I'll try to keep the stories interesting...

Thank you and cheers...!!

A Month of Blogs

So I did it!  Tonight concludes a month of blogging.  Who knew I had the time?  Who knew I had it in me?  Who's been reading this drivel over the last month?  Anyone?  Anyone?  Hello, is this thing on....?

I think it's helped my writing skills.  I think it's helped relieve some stress.  I think it's inspired to write on a more frequent basis than I usually do (once a month if I'm lucky.)  I do think, though, that I am at somewhat of a disadvantage in terms of subject material.

You, see.  I'm a doctor.  You would think I would have tons to write about given I work in the Emergency Department.  But, like I said before, patient confidentiality aside, I live in a small town.  In a smallish area.  Where most everyone know everyone.  I can be at some random medical society meeting and find that the neighbor who walks her St. Bernards around town is the mother of the dental hygenist who is sitting next to me.  So, around here, it's difficult to talk about patients because most everyone will know who I am talking about.

I could talk about my new hobby farm.  Twenty-five acres of pine trees and rolling hills that hasn't had any work done on it for the last 17 years and on which we're still uncovering hidden treasures from time to time.  Not to mention the small flock of birds which I have added and will be adding to:  my little bantams and guinea fowl.  AND, the biggest part of all, renovating and remodeling the house which also has seen nothing done to it in 17 years.

But, seriously, are those things people would be interested in hearing about?  Looking around at the more popular blogs on BlogHer which I've been cross-posting on this month, I'm not a single girl doing the dating scene in the big city.  I'm not the country mom talking about raising my 5 kids while home-schooling and baking pies.  I'm not the city girl living in a foreign country learning how to milk yaks and make my own cheese.

So how about I get some comments going on here.... how about you tell me what you like and don't like.  Hello, hello...?  Is this thing on...?  Better tell me soon, or I will start posting a dream journal... like this afternoon, I was a spy, kinda like the guy on Burn Notice... and then...

And We Start Anew....

If you remember last year, I took up the blog a day, every day for a month.  It's the national NaBloPoMo month of November, and I am again rising up to the challenge.  I was able to do it for my birthday month, and it was a lot of fun.  I hope it will be easier this go-round.

I think I am definitely in a different place from where I was a year ago.  Now instead of only having my job to write about... and there's a lot there I wish I could say but can't (small town and all)... I now have the new house, and all of my experience of learning about country-fried life.  Of course, I am still bummed to not be able to do the NaNoWriMo, but alas I do not have the time... not this year anyway.

So, this will be the easiest post, cause it's the introduction.  We'll see how well I do... how about you... are you up to the challenge?  Also, the new change this year is that I am posting to the BlogHer website... there's a link on my site... some interesting writers you should read... and, thanks for taking the time to read my little corner of the web...