• What Was My Memoir Really About?

    This guest post was written for She Writes Blog on November 29, 2018. My book, Stories from the Tenth-Floor Clinic: A Nurse Practitioner Remembers, took me about seven years to complete. I couldn’t seem to rush the process. A mentor told me “the book will take as long as it needs to take to be…

  • SOB SISTERS

    SOB SISTERS

    Originally posted on Getting Older: Charting the Uncharted: Thanks to my friend Lois Roelofs and her post “Growing Older In “Style,” I found Ari Seth Cohen, a twenty-eight-year-old who is spotlighting “stylish senior citizens.” Love it. Older women—and men—who ignore the old adage: “dress your age.” How come a twenty-eight-year-old man finds older people so…

  • THE CHOICE

    This was published in September 2018 in The Olli Writers Group Anthology   On our first night in a hotel room in Estoril, Portugal, the thumping in my chest jolted me awake. Still groggy from jet lag, I tried to go back to sleep but the pounding demanded attention. I pressed my hand over my…

  • Patron of Nursing

    Barbara Jonas, 84, collector of art and patron of nursing, died on October 23, in Manhattan.  I had never heard of her. But the heading of her obituary in the New York Times on November 9th grabbed my attention. She was a patron of nursing along with her husband, Donald Jonas. In 2016, the couple sold off…

  • Traits Every Great Nurse Has

    I discovered a great nursing blog: Diversity Nursing Blog. Here is a post I especially liked. Hope you do too.   DiversityNursing Blog Traits Every Great Nurse Has Posted by Erica Bettencourt Fri, Mar 23, 2018 @ 09:19 AM   What makes a good Nurse? What are the qualities of terrific Nurses? The Nursing profession is…

  • The Building as Character

    This was originally posted on November 5, 2018   Memoir Writer’s Journey   November 5, 2018  By Kathy Pooler The Building as Character by Memoirist Marianna Crane   “Home is a shelter from storms—all sorts of storms.” —William J. Bennett     As a family nurse practitioner, I read Marianna Crane’s memoir with great interest…