It’s a relationship that can be ugly and contentious.  It’s fodder for many crude jokes, ridicule and eye-rolls. It can be saturated in competition and meanness; even, judgment and hate! Some relationships roll into a gutter immediately or atrophy over time. Who in their right […]

Have you ever felt like you were suffocating?  At the end of your rope?  Unable to move a muscle or put two good thoughts together? Unable to thread the needle of logic? When we usually hear the term, ”rock bottom” we visualize a person on […]

The holidays aren’t so jolly for everyone.  It’s important to be mindful of that, even if you are dashing through the snow in an one horse open sleigh and full of good cheer. This year in particular has been traumatic for the countless Americans who […]

I got home from work at 5 pm.  It took me 1 hour and 30 minutes.  It should normally take me forty minutes.  That’s only if I jump on the highway. I detest the highway with a passion!! I hate getting caught up in rush […]

Out and about, we pass by each other in the streets, grocery stores, banks, airports, subways, parks, restaurants and work places masked up attempting to protect ourselves and others from the deadly Covid-19 virus.  Masses of flesh, kinetic energy rushing through life–being, doing and moving […]

We as a people are a bunch of sorry humans. Think about it.  How many times in a given day does ”I’m sorry,” dribble out of your mouth? I’m not talking about serious things like genuinely expressing empathy for others misfortunes or regret for saying […]

Floating. Sleepwalking. Self-induced brain fog. Daydreaming. Living.  But not really. Breathing.   Barely. Mechanical. Robotic. Out of touch. With who you are. What you need. What you like. What you hate. What lights your inner fire. Where you are going. Stuck. Somewhere. Hard to budge. Hard […]

Self-sabotage is not a birthright or a right-of-passage!!  Neither is walking blindly into traffic while yapping on your cell phone or jumping behind the wheel with several chocolate martinis under your belt. Some things are just plain stupid and irresponsible.  Our lives are constructed on […]

So, I pulled my car into a grocery store parking lot, on the way home from work, to exhale a bit.  It was gloomy. Sheets of rain fell earlier in the day. It made me extremely tired.  My eyelids felt like bags of sand. I […]

Stepping into innumerable homes in the urban, suburbs and valley areas over the past 23 years, as a medical and psychiatric registered nurse–crossing racial, cultural and religious fences– has taught me valuable things about my patients and being human.   We are more alike than […]