Off to the races for the day. Someone asked me recently, "How do you come up with the posts you write?" The honest answer? These thoughts just start running through my head—and they don't let go until I get them out. After more than 30 years in healthcare, I may …
Continue reading Unfinished Business
Grief has layers. People don’t always realize that. It shows up with casseroles and pity-laced texts, then leaves when it gets uncomfortable. But grief, the real kind, the kind that’s feral and unforgiving — that grief stays. It stains everything, including the quietest corners of the house. It even …
Continue reading When the Tail Stops Wagging: Grief and the Ones Left Behind
https://youtu.be/CPyo_wSqjrU?si=IeJse2gTh_JV4vER I’m not sure if this is a reflection, a curiosity, or just a brain dump in motion—but the past few days I’ve been revisiting some of the sporadic blog entries I posted after I stopped writing regularly. One in particular stood out. It was a short piece from shortly after the fertilizer …
Continue reading “It’s Just Joe Being Joe”: The Quiet Damage of Excusing Bad Behavior
Before everything today I just want to say rest in peace to Loretta Swit. You were adored as Hot Lips Houlihan in M*A*S*H. You willingly became a champion for women in the military as well as nursing without doing anything more than playing an honest role as a nurse in a mobile Army surgical hospital …
Continue reading The Myth of Medical Perfection (and the Reality That Follows)
