Tag Archives: advocacy
FMM 3 11 2022 Existential Advocacy
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe. I always thought I had a pretty good vocabulary. Until I went back to school in my fifties. As the youngest of the family, I listened and learned from those older than me. I had access […]
FMM 2 12 2021 Outspeaking
“All advocacy is, at its core, an exercise in empathy.” ~ Samantha Power. When I was a young working mother of four young children, I did what many other nurses did who had similar responsibilities, I worked nights and weekends. It didn’t give you much of a social life, but it maximized your earning power […]
FMM 2 16 18 Keep your head up
“Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.”~ Martin Luther King, Jr. My nursing education began in a patriarchal era, a time when doctors made unilateral decisions regarding healthcare. The patient did as they were told. Because of course, Doctor knows best. But my education was not limited to […]
FMM 11 17 17 Push me Pull you
“The countenance of one man brighten up another; iron sharpen iron.”~ Joseph Hill. One of the problems with parenting is that you are mostly making it up as you go along. Children don’t come with a handbook. The way you were raised may influence you, but the world, the times and the social mores can […]
FMM 5 9 14 A Woman’s Touch
“If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.” ~Sojourner Truth This week […]
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