The Beastwood Files: May 2026

I survived my marathon, helped my son adhere hundreds of monster truck stickers to sheets of paper, took my mother to two doctor’s appointments, installed our window ACs, and wrote a few things here and there to boot. In other words, just another month here at Brian Eastwood Writes, LLC. (And I was named Employee of the Month AGAIN!)

Stuff I Wrote

• HealthTech Magazine: Centering Nurses Amid Evolving Tech Adoption in Healthcare and empowering them to choose the right technology before it’s put in place
• Digital Health Insights: As hospital at home shows promise, its obstacles sound familiar to rural providers that also struggle to integrate technology with established workflows and business models
• Digital Health Insights: Google Health Coach, Fitbit Air enter crowded market for health monitoring and hope to lean on AI coaching to stand out among the competition
• MIT Sloan Ideas Made to Matter: How ‘learnrights’ would compensate creators for AI model training, preserving their livelihood while giving AI models better content to learn from
• Healthcare IT Today: Leading Healthcare CIOs on LinkedIn
• Custom content for companies in pharma market research, pharma data management, pharma marketing, and more
• A short, self-published story about an exclusive monster truck experience

Things I Did, Marathon Edition

• Finish my 5th consecutive Vermont City Marathon (and 6th marathon since my won was born) within the two-minute time window of 3:24:31 to 3:26:31 (in this case, 3:26:23), which means I’m officially nothing if not consistent
• Gather acceptable snacks to share with my son at the finish line, including slices of pizza, Nutri-Grain bars, and the all-important free underripe bananas that are the reason like 73% of marathon runners compete
• Wear brand-new compression socks to recover from said marathon because I forgot to pack them and had to purchase a new pair the day before the race
• Remember to pack everything else that mattered – including the cowbell than my son shook vigorously while in the hotel room but not (AFAIK) while outside cheering for runners

Adventures in Fatherhood

• We completed / survived our first-ever Kid Race, which was a 1/2-mile loop in Burlington, Vermont’s lovely Waterfront Park. We also overcame our pre-race jitters, which were 100% attributable to the presence of mascots in unexpected proximity. We celebrated with pre-packaged trail mix and a sampling from a local ice cream truck.
• We also experienced and enjoyed our first-ever roller coaster at a local fundraiser fair, though our favorite part very well may have been the fried dough. (Can’t argue with that.) We decided we didn’t like the teacups – and I learned I can’t handle the teacups as well as I used to – but did like the Ferris wheel (even if the waiting was the hardest part).
• Yes, we heard the sonic boom from the meteorite that landed in the middle of Cape Cod Bay. No, we didn’t think anything of it at the time, especially as our neighbors are in the midst of a large renovation project and it hasn’t been uncommon to hear things get loudly dropped into a Dumpster.

Enjoy June and the beginning of summer. We’re gearing up for a pre-summer-vacation trip to Cape Cod , preschool graduation, and a trip to New Hampshire for the Fourth. We’re NOT going to New Hampshire in June because I told a story once about black files and now we’re convinced that’s when there are YUCKY BUGS in our neighbor to the north. I’m sure we’d have fun, as we talk about the YUCKY BUGS while laughing, but between Champy and the teacups, I’ve scarred my son enough for quite some time.