Monkey Brain Musings

 March 2, 2026 Hello, friends! I have been meaning to check in and then I get online to follow the global news, and I feel paralyzed and furious and sick, all at the same time. Those of you who have been following along with me for quite some time know that my Ugandan travel brought me to Dubai multiple times, and I am lucky to have made some wonderful friends there. I'm relieved to say that they have all reached out to me to say they are safe. For those of you who may have friends or family in any of the areas affected by this latest nightmare, I will keep you in my thoughts and heart.  Dubai Only time will tell how this will affect my travel, so in the meantime I am just working away and preparing for my trip to the conference in Kenya. Preparation for the conference has included quite a few video meetings with the CoP members, the latest was a 2-hour meeting starting at 2am for me. Yikes. Timing is the biggest challenge for the CoP because we are trying to coordinate betwee...

 1/11/26 Hellooooooo! Well, here we are in a new year...and I'm already exhausted. Anyone else feeling the same? I would be lying if I said I wasn't concerned about what is happening in our country and how it may affect the work I am doing overseas. All I can do is fight the good fight, cause good trouble, and keep going until someone stops me! 😬 I closed out last year with travel, of course, both for work and fun. I spent a week in Chicago, working at a massive, global Radiology conference. I had almost forgotten how much I love Chicago; it's been decades since I've been there and wish I had gotten more time (and had a little more energy) to enjoy the city. My first evening in the city, I managed to walk around for a few hours and a few of the engineers and I did spend a night at the Christmas Market. The conference was massive, with Radiologists from all over the world, which was interesting and fun.  Although I enjoyed the conference, it did reek some havoc on my kn...