Beaten for 50 years.
From 1978 to 1981, I was a public health nurse in Ulster County, NY. One of my regular clients was an elderly German woman; I visited her every 3-4 weeks for blood pressure monitoring and health maintenance. She and her husband lived in a little house in the country. Their house was immaculate, inside and.. read more →
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 →
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 →
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 →
“How can young men do such things?”
The fist came out of nowhere, landed on the side of my head, and slammed me into a row of hall lockers. I was 16. To this day, I can not remember what I said that set this classmate off. Pete was a tall and handsome boy, blond and blue eyed, a track athlete. I.. read more →