Much of our Thanksgiving break has given way to creativity. Our youngest, an artist by self-proclamation and pubic opinion, held a Harry Styles give away via Instagram. He had 1,600 people tag this celebrity in hopes to win a drawing of him that our son completed a few days ago. He moved on to a…
When I first started to practice nursing, about 35 years ago, some people believed the old adage: “a nurse is a nurse.” Institutions, such as the one for which I worked at the time, implemented cross-training of the nursing staff so we could “float” to one unit or another and cover for short-staffing in a…
A lot of memories flooded my head when I was home last week visiting my parents in Western New York. This is the area in which I grew up – outside of Rochester, New York. My parents no longer live in the town where I went to high school but rather in an adjacent town,…
Within 18 hours of my arrival “home” to visit my parents this week, we made three visits to the local emergency room with my Dad! I had planned a trip back to New York to visit my parents, who are both in their early 80’s, living in their own home. At the time the trip…
The post of another blogger I read led me to think of why I like to visit certain places. She is writing a series of poems that commemorate the sacrifice of the U.S. soldiers during the World Wars and eventually, other wars such as Gettysburg, too. I highly recommend you read them. But, my connection…
Ten years ago I had my Evergreen Garden Club students participate in a large Citizen Science Project. It was co-hosted by Monarch Watch and NASA (yes, that NASA). Monarch larvae were sent into space via the space shuttle to arrive at the International Space Station. At the same time, project participants, including those in my…
Introduction to Poetry Friday for November 15th, 2019. Usually, my poems do not rhyme. I am very comfortable with that and often surprise the school children I’ve worked with on poetry when I tell them that poetry does not have to rhyme. But, the other night, while lying in bed, wide awake for two hours,…
Today I learned via social media that a person had been hired to replace me in the position from which I resigned in early October. It came on the heels of seeing a press release that included a grant I had written and obtained for this same organization – a piece of independent work and…
On Saturday we were at our cabin in the Northwoods of Wisconsin and took a walk with our dog. We visited the small lake adjacent to ours – Stone Lake. The water was not yet frozen over. We could tell this because it looked like someone tried to ice fish and found it too slushy…
We took off to our cabin on Friday afternoon for the weekend. Just my husband and I went with our dog, Molly. She’s still a puppy and this was only her second time at the cabin. In the last few years, we’ve gone to our timberframe home in the Northwoods less and less. The boys…