• 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…

  • Josephine Ensign (1960 – )

    Originally posted on NurseManifest: Inspiration for Activism!  Worked for three decades as a family nurse practitioner providing primary health care to homeless adolescents and adults in large urban areas on both coasts of the U.S. Focuses her work on increasing understanding of the lives of marginalized populations, and developing ways to increase their access to…

  • Firing My Doctor

          More Voices: Worry  Firing My Doctor Marianna Crane 31 May 2018   I didn’t decide to “fire” my doctor on the spot. During my last appointment with her, I’d filled Dr. Green in on the details of my mastectomy. I happily reported that the surgeon had declared me “cured”–the tumor’s margins were…

  • Are Nurses Losing Ground? Part 2

    In my last post I discussed the Woodhull Study that was published in 1998, which showed nurses were quoted in the media (newspapers) 4% of the time. The 2017 replication of study showed a drop to 2%. Click here to view a video discussing the study, findings, limitations, and input from a panel of journalists/media…

  • Are Nurses Losing Ground?

    I wrote the following blog on February 10, 2013. I can’t believe I was the only one. In my last post I referenced The Truth About Nursing blog in which we are asked to write to two journalists who did not mention nurses in their article in Businessweek about Hillary Clinton’s hospitalization. The story read…