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Maggie's avatar

You are too kind, but thank you for everything. I'm underemployed at the moment with too much time on my hands, and I really appreciate how kind the feedback has been on this and I'm glad it resonated with people.

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GlenD's avatar

Por Nada, Maggie. Por Nada. I'm obviously not the only one who feels this way. Keep it up. I'll be looking for your input and I hope JVL and Charlie take me up on my challenge.

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As of the weekend I'm a Board Certified Preventative Medicine doctor, but I'm still waiting for my state to process a medical license and the feds to give me a DEA number, so I'll be around. And then I'll start working 4 days a week and I'll be around on Tuesdays. I'm still trying to work out what to do with that Tuesday though. I've thought of volunteering, I have a neighbor needling me to run for the county school board, but it also occurred to me to start writing in some capacity.

Anton Chekhov said тАЬMedicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other. Though it is irregular, it is less boring this way, and besides, neither of them loses anything through my infidelity.тАЭ

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Congratulations, Doc!!! I was a medic in Nam, became an RN 20-some years after that and worked nearly 20 years in the ER in a small city north of Dallas, followed by 7 years at a community-owned non-profit hospice. My wife was an FNP, having to go on disability at age 60 due to a still-undetermined form of Parkinsonism. So now, I'm chief cook, bottle-washer, and general all-around wiseacre. I used to comment prolifically on the NYT, but the gray lady's panties kept getting wadded up tighter and tighter, and stayed that way, so a lot of what I submitted never saw print, and that was a lot more watered down than what The Bulwark lets me get away with.

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