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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →