We planned a winter issue and now, with an eye on the calendar, a day before the vernal equinox (or maybe the day after), we are ready.  We asked for written work that discusses pain, any kind of pain…growing pain.  We continue learning how to be editors, solicit original creative work, attract readers, make friends, and renew friendships.  We now offer our first audio clip—a story that appeared in the local NPR affiliate about narrative in medicine and the disturbing language of industrialized medicine—and hope for future submissions in media that only an Internet magazine can display. In April, at a meeting sponsored by the University of Iowa Carver School of  Medicine—the Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine—we will be talking about the conception, gestation, and birth of Hospital Drive.  We are pleased to learn about similar ventures and whenever we do, a new link appears—e.g. Pulse from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In order to spread the word we are also making an effort to learn about blogs and the mysterious way that information diffuses through the internet.  As always we thank our readers, viewers, supporters, and the artists and writers we represent.