Tag Archives: healthcare system
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 3 6 2020 Nature’s Reboot
“Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they’ve always made me glad.” ~ Malcolm X. My first memory of realizing the awesomeness of nature, the truly astonishing wonder of it all was a view of the night sky from the deck of an ocean liner. I […]
FMM 11 16 12 The wrong side of the bed
For the past 2 months I have had a front row seat at a drama involving a friend of mine and the tragically broken and dysfunctional health care system we have in the USA. It has provided me with many important lessons which I feel I must share with others. Many of us pride ourselves […]
Friday Morning Messages 