Dear Mom And Dad,

I loved this story that a friend of mine recently emailed me, about a doctor who quit practicing to BLOG.  Fitting for me to forward across the web to my own parents...the ones who I had told since 5th grade that I would indeed be a doctor when I grew up.  From M.D. to Blogger; Dr. Arnold Kim is my newest hero.

For eight years, Arnold Kim has been trading gossip, rumor and facts about Apple, the notoriously secretive computer company, on his Web site, MacRumors.com.

It had been a hobby — albeit a time-consuming one — while Dr. Kim earned his medical degree. He kept at it as he completed his medical training and began diagnosing patients’ kidney problems. Dr. Kim’s Web site now attracts more than 4.4 million people and 40 million page views a month, according to Quantcast, making it one of the most popular technology Web sites.

Still, he hesitated to make it a full-time job because he enjoyed medicine — and he had invested almost $200,000 in his education. But he finally concluded that “on paper, it was an easy decision.” He also had a practical reason for wanting the ability to work from home. Her name is Penelope, and she is 14 months old. [NY TImes]