Today, I am going to do it. I am getting “off” FaceBook for a while, or maybe, forever. This is something I have been toying with for quite a while. It has been just a week over seven years that I have been a member of the FaceBook crowd. I joined it when my eldest…
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Color Blindness and the EMR – An Overlooked Obstacle to Practice.
Between 1 in 10 and 1 in 12 men (red/green) and 1 in 200 women experience color blindness, also becoming known as color deficiency. As a former nurse, I learned about color blindness and even tested some children for the disorder when I worked at a school and did eye exams. I learned some facts like it…
WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Variations on a Theme, The Chrysalis
When this challenge was first posted, I was at a loss as to what I could share. Then, I remembered the thousands of photographs I have taken of the various stages of the Monarch Butterfly’s life cycle. My favorite stage is the third stage, the pupa, or chrysalis! I have been raising monarchs for 14…
Monday Morning Blahs
The rain was pounding on our bedroom windows at 6:30 this morning. I had heard the wind pick up earlier in the night. It is January, an odd time of year for such a storm. We should be getting snow and not rain. The subzero temperatures of earlier this month have receded to a mildness…
Silent Sunday: Waterfalls
We All Have Untold Life Stories
Have you ever given some thought to the stories you are not telling through your blog? We all have them. Stories of heartache. Stories of grief. Stories of anger. Stories of frustration. Even stories of joy, all of which go unshared. They are all part of our life’s journey – our stories. Some of us…
One Blogger’s Dilemma of Picking that One Little Word (OLW)
So, there is this thing going around called your One Little Word. I do not know much about it, having heard of it just recently. Last year, in March I signed on to TwoWritingTeachers.org daily blogging challenge. Occasionally, I would see a post about what one little word someone had chosen for 2017. Last week,…
Resolutions: Every Day Offers a Chance
It is that time of year when many among us make resolutions. We resolve, or decide, to do something to improve ourselves or accomplish something that has been put off or proved elusive. Are you in the habit of making resolutions? If so, how has that gone for you? If we strive, on a daily…
Favorite Christmas Movies
My son came home from school yesterday and said he did well on some kind of in class Christmas movie trivia contest his teacher had on Kahoot. I laughed at it because he had me pegged, stating that he told his teacher that it isn’t Christmas in our house until we have watched White Christmas at…
The Amaryllis Project 2017
Last year, a parent donated 220 Amaryllis Kits to the after school garden club I ran at our local elementary school. It was not the first time she had made such a donation, but the volume this time was much larger! 220 Kits! Wow! I had about 40 students enrolled in garden club and knew…