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 →
Belief versus fact
Research shows that facts don’t change beliefs. I have fought against beliefs that don’t make sense to me since I was a little girl. The responses to my different opinions have often been painful. As a Jewish child I had rocks thrown at me by the neighborhood Catholic children for asking, “Doesn’t your God say.. read more →
After death.
Today, my daughter and son-in-law are at a cemetery for the unveiling of the new gravestone on the grave of his father and her father-in-law, George. Other family members are there too, thinking and remembering, and talking about George. Being at the grave of someone known and loved is a profound experience. One is flooded.. read more →
Postpartum Mood Adjustment Disorder
I volunteered at the Postpartum Support International exhibitor’s table at the Psych Congress in Nashville on September 9. Psych Congress bills itself as “the nation’s number one conference on practical psychopharmacology.. . . This is a conference for psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, psychologists, primary care physicians, and other mental health professionals.” Our table was.. read more →
Small acts make a difference.
The walk to the gym and to the local drugstore is short; I like being able to walk instead of using my car. Even when it is raining or snowing, I walk. Trash litters the roadside: candy wrappers, cigar and cigarette boxes, fast food bags, soda and water bottles. As I walk along, I pick.. read more →
Family legacy
Today, my brain wandered while I vacuumed my house. As I chased away the dirt and dust of the past week, I started thinking about my mother’s parents and all the things they told me when I was very young. My Confederate grandparents were given an oral history about our family from their own grandparents,.. read more →
