• Kirkus Review

    My book, Stories from the Tenth-Floor Clinic, received a positive Kirkus Review. A good review a best seller does not make. I have been busy, along with my publicist, lining up ways to promote the book. I find none of this easy. In retrospect, writing the book may have been the easy part. “In this…

  • The Physician Supports the Nurse 

    I am following a physician’s blog: Suneel Dhand. Reading his post for the first time, I had a gut feeling I would like this guy. I think he represents a new and steadily growing wave of physicians who are becoming more aware of the effects that good communication has on patient outcomes and improvement in…

  • A Day in the Emergency Room for a Nurse Who Loves Her Job

    Reblogged from Off the Charts, August 16, 2018 by Tarra Midgette, RN, is a nurse in an emergency department in North Carolina. I love this post and wanted to share it with you because Tarra Midgette so poignantly describes her inner thoughts and feelings as she goes about her not routine day in an ED. No…

  • New Love in Old Age

    I wanted to post an upbeat aspect of aging after my last one focused on death. While we can’t deny that the ultimate conclusion of aging is death, there are many diversions along the aging journey that turn out to be a surprise and delight. I, for example, would never have predicted that after I…

  • Marv Roelofs and Apple Sauce

    Making applesauce sort of represents living life to the fullest. I think prayer is sometimes about asking God to let us do what we can and enjoy ourselves. Picking apples and making applesauce has made me do that. —Marv Roelofs   I called Marv soon after he received the diagnosis of Stage IV Small Cell…

  • New York City Memories

    Over the years, my husband, Ernie, and I have taken one grandchild on a trip during the summer break. The oldest grandson went to NYC with us when he was 11 years old. This past June we took the middle grandson, now 14, to see the Big Apple over a long weekend. My son and…