• Out of the Shadows by Marianna Crane

    Out of the Shadows by Marianna Crane

    Originally posted on ElderChicks: I love reading all the ElderChick posts by women my age. Such a varied, interesting and involved group. Many are writing memoirs as I am and if we all get published just think what an education we are giving the rest of society! No more “invisible” older women! Ten years ago,…

  • FMM 1 17 14 Self-Efficacy

    “Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.”~ Viktor E. Frankl Studies show that you can predict a person’s ability to change a habit by the degree to which they believe in their ability to change.  Self-efficacy is the term given to that belief…

  • WHY CAN’T NURSES RUN THE SHOW?

    Last week I reblogged Josephine Ensign’s Radical Hat-Burning Nurses Unite! because I was moved watching the Politics of Caring. The video, released in 1977, showed in Ensign’s words, “how little things have changed.” Nurses then were striking and joining unions in order to have “control over their jobs” and to promote safe and good nursing…

  • Radical Hat-Burning Nurses Unite!

    I had to re-blog this post because I wonder if we nurses will ever be in charge of our own profession. Read it and watch the video The Politics of Caring. Let me know your thoughts. JOSEPHINE ENSIGN Radical nurses are back, or perhaps they never left and are just becoming more visible, more organized.…

  • PEOPLE WHO NEED PEOPLE

    I had one of the best Christmases ever. Maybe it was because the grandsons were older and less frenzied about what Santa left under the tree. Or maybe because Ernie and I said don’t give us “things” or “stuff,” just experiences, as presents. Or maybe because my son brought his significant other for the first…

  • GUN CULTURE

    It seems fitting to re-post what I wrote last year after 20 children and six teachers were killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Let us not forget. When we were traveling in Ireland this past October, our Irish tour guide told us that Ireland did not have a “gun culture” as…