Change

So, I've been away from the blogosphere for a while. Lots of happenings in the interim; the largest of which is returning to school. Crazy? Maybe! But, in the spirit of making my little corner of the world better for the people in it, I could no longer listen to the stories of patients and families in the hallways of my clinic day after day, and not respond in some larger way. So, after jumping through the many, many hoops that a nationally ranked graduate program requires, I am into my first semester of a Master of Public Health program, with a focus on Health Policy and Management. (And, yes, one of those hoops included taking the GRE again after 30 years. And, yes, I was the ONE person in the testing center wearing bifocals that day!)
So, the juggling of work, school, and just the daily minimum "life maintenance" is challenging. It's budget season at work, hours and hours of stats homework, multiple policy articles to read, and somehow it seems right. Oh, and I learned very quickly that statistics homework is no longer completed (as it was 30 years ago) with a calculator, formulas, and t-tables to reference. It is all done in Excel. The times have changed!