The last tic tac

When I was a little girl, orange Tic Tacs were the best. They tasted a lot like baby aspirin…but you could eat a bunch of Tic Tacs and not die. It wasn’t until years later that science discovered that giving aspirin to kids was a bad idea and can cause liver or brain damage. Yeah, […]

The weight

A few weeks after my husband passed away, I went back to work. The world (and bills) still begged for my attention. As I walked down the hall to see my first patient, I could feel my nerves boiling under a calm exterior. Can I still do this? I stopped outside the exam room door […]

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Where did the time go?

I feel old saying that. I feel old anyway, like I’ve aged 20 years in a very short period of time. My last post was in 2020. It’s 2024. Four years went by in a blip. Today I feel like I am in a dream…some days it feels like a nightmare. I just want to […]

Nurturing the Eye

Not so easy, taking care of ourselves. That said, there are a lot of us out there that ONLY look out for ourselves. Finding the balance between self-love and being self-ish is an ongoing battle of the mind for some. Lately, I’ve felt a lot more negative energy swirling around me. Family of origin issues […]

Screaming Eagle

As I started down the skinny trail, it dawned on me that I had followed a bunch of twenty-somethings into an area I did not know. You idiot, I muttered. Twenty-somethings are invincible. I am not. I looked back. Going back was a long way back up the narrow cat track. I looked left and […]

Resurrection

Times are a-changing. They are always a-changing. My last blog was in December of 2016, when I decided that I wanted a fresh start in the blogging world. I created a new blog under a new alias. I wrote one blog in the past year. Lame. I’m a writer. So, it doesn’t mean I haven’t […]

Closure

It is time for new beginnings. Time to put the past to rest and move forward. A new chapter? No, a new book. It is time for this one to rest on the shelf where I can pick it up and read it when I need a reminder of where I’ve been. Letting go is […]

Hold the Phone

I was talking to a student today about medical futility and the ethical dilemmas that sometime crop up in caring for patients in the hospital. Sometimes patients are so sick that it appears there is no cure, no fix. It can be patient driven, a product of the patient’s environment, or progression of disease and […]

Dirty Vets

In my first year of nursing school, we spent time doing a rotation at the VA. Being that it was Memorial Day today, I recalled how much I enjoyed working with the veterans. Most of them were WWII vets with a few Korean War and Vietnam vets mixed in. The WWII vets were in their […]

Confusion Says

True story. I called a chiropractor yesterday to schedule a first time appointment. I had been seeing my favorite in Vancouver but he moved farther away…and well, it’s just TOO far. I do so much better when I have a guy watching my back. Literally. It has been over a year since seeing someone and […]