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  • My Mother’s Boyfriend

    Happy Mother’s Day. My mother died the day before Mother’s Day sixteen years ago. Each year at this time my memories of Mom revolve around both her life and death. Her last few years weren’t what I would have predicted. When Ernie and I moved from the Midwest to Maryland in 1993, Mom came with Read more

  • Nurses’ Books Need More Media Attention

    In my last post, I told you about a couple of books I discovered—short story collections written by nurses. Lynn Rosack wrote a comment on my last post reminding me that Echo Heron, whose book I covered, Emergency 24/7: Nurses of the Emergency Room (2015) had written other nursing books. One of them, Intensive Care: Read more

  • Nursing Stories by the Hundreds!

    Now that my book has been reworked and has a new title—Playing Sheriff: A Nurse Practitioner’s Story—I am ready to get it in print. In order to do this, I’ve been looking for books about nursing, and preferably written by a nurse. to see how these reached publication. First of all, I found out was Read more

  • A Nurse’s Hands

    I came across this post on All Nurses. It’s too lovely not to share. A Nurse’s Hands by VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN Guide Mar 16 2016 I’ve been retired for over two years now, but in a rare contemplative moment, here are a few thoughts on what being a nurse meant to me. Lately I’ve taken Read more

  • Humor Noir/Black Humor

    While I was looking for something to read to my writing group, I came across this story. It brings back memories of how green I was when I started nursing school.   Right before Patsy’s turn to share her thoughts with the group, she smiled coyly at me. Oh no! She wasn’t going to tell Read more

  • Keeping Creative Juices Juicy

    A few years back I took an acrylic painting class. Sometimes, while the ever-present radio played a Mahler violin concerto, an aria from La Traviata or Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire, I would spin about whipping color on my canvas, feeling “in the zone.” My mind would disconnect from my hand, which moved independent of Read more