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Well, here we are. Remember when we were wondering why the holiday decorations were showing up so early? Apparently, that was just the warm-up. Now the countdown has officially begun. Everywhere you look, someone is reminding us how many days are left until the holidays. Thank you. Really. I was perfectly happy not knowing. And isn't it funny how the holidays seem so far away until suddenly they're not? One minute you're enjoying a perfectly ordinary afternoon, and the next you're wondering whether you should be making a list. Or checking a list. Or trying to remember where you put...

  Okay, what’s going on? Did I just see holiday decorations in the store? I’m pretty sure I did. And then I go online and there it is—the countdown. Only so many days until the holidays! Really? Do I need that kind of stress right now? I was doing perfectly fine not counting. I’m still trying to figure out where September went, and apparently someone thinks I need to know how many shopping days I have left. But here’s the funny part. We complain about seeing all that stuff too early—and then we stop and look at it. Maybe we see...

    There are certain things you expect when you work in healthcare. Long days. Busy days. Days when lunch happens at a perfectly reasonable time—like 3:47 in the afternoon. But then there are the other things. The things nobody really mentions. Like the fact that you can own twelve perfectly good pens and somehow finish the day with none of them. Where do they go? Seriously. There has to be a drawer somewhere in a hospital filled with thousands of pens, three missing badge reels, somebody's good scissors and at least seventeen phone chargers. And then there's coffee. You...

            I have a quick question. Who decided.... September means we are suddenly suppose to make a quick adjustment ...Autumn? Summer barely packed its bag and already there are calendars filling up, school papers appearing on kitchen counters, appointments we forgot we made, and somebody asking what we’re doing for Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving? Can we get through Thursday first?  For those working in healthcare, the whole idea of a neat little seasonal transition is especially questionable. There isn’t exactly a meeting where everyone agrees that summer has ended and things will now become calm and organized....

    There’s a certain point in August when summer hasn’t actually left, but apparently everyone has decided it’s over. You walk into a store for toothpaste and suddenly there are pumpkins. Pumpkins? We were just looking for sunscreen. And just like that, back-to-school season has arrived. Kids are heading back to classrooms, traffic has remembered how to be annoying again, and somewhere right now a parent is searching the house for a lunchbox that absolutely existed three months ago. For those of us working in healthcare, the change of season can be a little less obvious. Hospitals don’t exactly...