Monthly Archives: August 2025
FMM 8 29 2025 I am no Expert…
“’Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.” ~ Alice Walker. One of the first things I learned, once I began teaching nursing students, was how much I had to relearn. The temptation, especially after having been a nurse for […]
FMM 8 22 2025 Stutter-stepping through Life
“To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.” ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox. When it comes to gifts and blessings, the nurse learns early on that health has to be number one. Even if you were not exposed to illness before entering the healthcare field, it is not long before you […]
FMM 8 15 2025 Thinking with the Heart
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” ~ Robert Frost. I can’t say that I have ever been very good at debating on the fly. Some people are quick, able to respond to taunts and jabs with a rapid response, cutting and accurate. Me, my best responses […]
FMM 8 8 2025 Take a Beat!
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” ~ Maya Angelou. There is something so peaceful about a house in the early morning, before dawn, before the neighborhood awakens. It has always been a favorite time of day for me. As a teenager I would […]
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