• What does 2022 hold for Nursing?

    What does 2022 hold for Nursing?

    The nursing profession has been riding a roller coaster these past two years as we lived with the pandemic. In the beginning: The World Health Organization designated 2020 the Year of the Nurse and Midwife spotlighting the profession internationally Nurses were applauded by New Yorkers who stood on their balconies or hung out the windows…

  • Seasons Greetings

    Wishing you Peace, Joy and Hope in the New Year. Taking a break during the holiday season. Be back in 2022.

  • Art in My Life: Unfinished

    As a child, I drew as I sat in the floral upholstered chair in front of our old 14-inch TV in the living room while I watched comedy shows like a popular sitcom, I married Joan. I was encouraged by my freshman art teacher in high school to continue drawing. She told me to make sure…

  • Olden Days of Nursing: Navy Nurse

    When I came across Navy Nurse: Memoir of a WWII Veteran, on Google, I said to myself: yes, finally a book about the olden days of nursing by a nurse who lived through the times. Helen Barry Siragusa was 98 when the book was published last year. A Navy nurse during World War II, she worked stateside…

  • Writing with Humor

    “It’s not what happens in your life but how you write about it.”                                                 —David Sedaris, Master Class: Storytelling and Humor I watched David Sedaris talk on Master Class the other night. I got hooked right away when he said that everything is funny—eventually. Lately, I’ve been feeling preoccupied with the complexity of life, and…

  • E.R. Nurses: True Stories from America’s Greatest Unsung Heroes

    E.R. Nurses: True Stories from America’s Greatest Unsung Heroes by James Pattersong and Matt Eversmann, Little, Brown & Company, 2021l I bought E.R. Nurses: True Stories from America’s Greatest Unsung Heroes at my local independent bookstore. The book isn’t an easy read. I wanted to skip over the tales that involved babies and children. But I didn’t.…