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  • Persistence and Determination

    I look back on 2018 with wonder and gratitude. My book is finally published. I feel such a sense of accomplishment. I don’t credit this achievement to talent, genius or education as you can see from my most favorite quote below: Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing Read more

  • 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 Read more

  • 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… Read more

  • 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 Read more

  • 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 Read more

  • 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 Read more