Today is Poetry Friday (again)! Is time moving faster? It seems to be for me! I don’t know what happened to the last six months! They just disappeared! Karen Edmisten is our host today. Hop over to her blog for more poetry goodness! Thanks for hosting, Karen. This week whizzed by. I’ve got my husband’s…
I’ll try to keep this short for all of your sakes and my own. (Sorry…it’s not short. I got going and couldn’t stop.) We came home from our Caribbean respite last Friday, stayed in the Twin Cities Friday night to Saturday, had a quick breakfast with two of our sons and one of their girlfriends…
Some years ago at this time of year, I posted a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and received some admonition about choosing it. Those criticisms were from people who misinterpreted the poem at face value and thought the poet was a racist. He was, in fact, an abolitionist who put his views into poetry. The…
A diary-style post Whew! It’s been a week! June itself has whizzed by, creating a “what happened to that month” feeling. I decided to record what happened in a diary-style post today. Earlier this month On June 8th I flew to New York to see my Dad. Many of you read about that visit. I…
Today is Slice of Life Tuesday. Since I already wrote my Medium.com post today, I’ll keep this short. If you want to read it, you can go to the links at the end of this post. Thanks! Today my husband and I got our newest COVID-19 booster shots. It’s the vaccine with combined variants. At…
My blog was posted to Medium.com today. You can view the piece here. I am co-posting most days from WordPress to Medium. Today, I wrote on Medium and am posting the link here. I am looking for more followers on my medium.com page. Please consider following my writing there. Thanks.
I’ve had several different careers over my lifetime and one of them was in healthcare. After I worked five years as a NICU nurse, I functioned as a nationally Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner for about six years. I practiced in the states of Maryland and New York. The advanced degree also allowed me to teach…
Lately, I’ve become concerned with blatant discrimination toward our elderly. Early on in my nursing education, I worked at a nursing home. I never thought much about the elderly at that time in my life. But, as I’ve aged – now in my late 50’s – and watched my parents age – now in their…
I am currently reading The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris. The book has been scary and enjoyable all at the same time. Look for a review in a future post. The main character in the book, the Tattooist or “Tatowierer” as he is referred to by the SS in the novel carries a bag…
Thirty years ago this month, we made a life transition. I left my jobs at Johns Hopkins Hospital as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Johns Hopkins University as an adjunct nursing instructor. My husband left his job in Delaware at the Nemours Children’s Hospital in Newark and we moved, “home” to Buffalo, New York. We…