• The Joys of the 80s.

    The Joys of the 80s.

    When I woke up today I was 81 years old. Well, officially I turn 81 at 3:30 pm or so my mother had told me. I’m headed out to meet my Jersey City friend, Carol, for lunch at our favorite Asian restaurant. We met when we were four years old. As adults, and living in……

  • The Authority of a Clinic Receptionist

    The Authority of a Clinic Receptionist

    Yesterday a clinic receptionist took me off the “Fall Risk” list. Maybe she noted that I was walking without a cane. That I didn’t have a leg brace. That I came without someone to lean on. She could’ve been a nurse or doctor when she asked why I had fallen. “Were you dizzy? Did you……

  • Women’s History Month

    Women’s History Month

    In today’s post from Off the Charts (a blog of the American Journal of Nursing): Women’s History Month 2023: Telling Our (Nursing) Stories Shawn Kennedy, editor-in-chief (emerita) The National Women’s History Alliance organizes Women’s History Month each March. This year, the theme, “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories,” was picked to draw attention to “women……

  • Dad and the Bride Doll

    Originally posted on Getting Older: Charting the Uncharted: My father, a complicated man, was the oldest son of 10 children. His parents came to America from Naples, Italy via Ellis Island at the turn of the century, and settled down in Jersey City, New Jersey. He left school in the sixth grade to pick up…

  • The Cars in My Life

    The Cars in My Life

          My father bought me a 12-year-old gold Studebaker convertible that was a guy magnet. It was the car he wished he had when he was younger. I had just graduated from nursing school in 1962. At 20 years of age, I had little knowledge of car maintenance. The first time I checked……

  • Where Am I Going With My Blog? Here Is the Answer

    Where Am I Going With My Blog? Here Is the Answer

    Throughout my long nursing career, I have felt nurses were mostly invisible. So, from the beginning of my first post eleven years ago, I have stressed that nurses: Since the onset of Covid, this has all changed. Nurses have been in the spotlight showing their skill, knowledge, and dedication. The public is now paying attention……