Human’s shadow side.
Every morning, I go for a long walk through my neighborhood with my dog. Today, we encountered another walker, by his accent, Hispanic. He was in his 40s or 50s. My dog went to sniff him and we ended up all walking together while this gentleman asked me if I knew anyone with a cheap.. read more →
Luck.
My birthday is this Wednesday. I celebrate my life, and the tiny inner voice that whispers guidance and truth. Luck is one reason that I am still living, There no other way to explain how I survived some situations. At 9, I knelt and peered down, many hundreds of feet, into a deep dark turbine.. read more →
Traumatic pregnancy and wanting to breastfeed. How do you help?
RP got pregnant the first time she and her husband tried. She was thrilled to be pregnant, until the 5th month of pregnancy when her baby was found to have a heart defect. At 28 weeks, she started weekly ultrasounds. Deep down inside, she always felt that her baby was fine, despite the continual worry.. read more →
Have things changed since 1970?
I was a junior nursing student in college when I wrote this paper after a clinical rotation in labor and delivery at Bellevue Hospital. I am newly 20; young and so upset by what I had to see. Not one single nursing instructor ever talked to the nursing students about the brutality they had to.. read more →
You can survive shame.
Today I rewatched Monica Lewinsky’s TED talk from 2015. Entitled “The Price of Shame”, it resonates more deeply in me since I was cancelled in 2023 from an organization I had been part of for over 30 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_8y0WLm78U I watched Ms Lewinsky’s talk when it was first released. What I responded to most then.. read more →