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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

With all the craziness going on in the world, it’s getting harder and harder to unwind at bedtime and curl into a fetal position.  Insomnia is running wild.  It seems like everybody is taking sleep aids that don’t do a damn thing. 1. Get Salty […]

When was the last time?  You felt good about yourself.  Not okay. But, good? Even, great? When was the last time?  You acknowledged an accomplishment or achievement without downplaying it? When was the last time?  You looked at yourself in the mirror and didn’t turn […]

As a medical and psychiatric visiting nurse for twenty-one years, there’s very little I haven’t seen or heard perched on the sofa or seated at the kitchen table with my patients. Sickness is big business; it’s often a revolving door!   Earning patient trust is a […]

Ahhh, yes. Divorce. That terrifying, life-altering seismic event that happens to other people.  Right?  War-torn couples who couldn’t crack the code for wedded bliss.  The reverberation of horror stories can make your ears bleed. You mourn from afar safe in your bunker.  Nobody really thinks […]

I can’t remember a time in my life that I haven’t felt more globally connected. With other humans. Known and unknown. Lives woven together by an invisible enemy. Relentlessly wreaking havoc. Communities shaken. Broken. Grieving. Immeasurable pain. America locked down. Indiscriminate against race; ethnicity; gender; religion; […]