Updated June 19th, 2026 at 3:10pm EDT, at Kings Dominion, shaperoning six girls on their middle school graduation celebratory trip. Or was it just a fun way to spend a summer Friday? Does it matter?
“You are a brave man”, said a fellow father after dropping off his progeny, but he could not have meant that accompanying the girls required courage because they ar in fact quite mature and know how to handle themselves in a not very crowded theme park. The only part requiring bravery has so far been driving south on I-95. Not that driving up north would be any better.
This is the doing of the moment. As for the quarterly update:
- Finishing transition from industry to clinical practice, with a job as a hematologist/oncologist lined up in the Denver metro area. More updates there are forthcoming.
- As a consequence, ramping up the logistics for an almost cross-country move of a family of 6-and-a-cat.
- Making sure we aren’t homeless when we finish the said move.
- With all that — and a few more wrinkles you needn’t worry about — the plan is still to continue the Introduction to Clinical Trials graduate course at University of Maryland Baltimore County, this year with a larger online component as I will be the completely-remote instructor.
So not as much time for books as I would have liked, though I continue to zip through Ada Palmer’s “Inventing the Renaissance” and have “Mody Dick” lined up of all things, mostly because Chris Arnade — he who walks the world — has a book club planned around it for the month of July. One that I likely won’t be able to join, with a new clinical load and all, but it is good to have some motivation.