I follow Shannon Ashley on Medium and this post really hit home: https://medium.com/honestly-yours/its-so-hard-to-talk-about-pain-d721abfd8e05 I’ve been dealing with pain for most of my adult life. It started when I was a young RN. In the 1960s-1970s there were few ways that patients were transferred from bed to stretcher or bed to…

Seriously… I have one I have an exploding head. Having one’s head explode by hearing or seeing something out of the normal has become a comic mannerism — putting both hands up to one’s head and making exploding gestures. But it’s a real syndrome and at first it can be…

My favorite Thanksgiving had no “real” turkey — maybe a huge turkey in a parade — but no turkey to eat. “You’re crazy to drive into New York on Thanksgiving…” I heard that for days before the holiday. “Everyone else will be driving in the opposite direction,” was my answer. …

I haven’t been writing on Medium as often as I did in the past. There’s a very good reason for that and you may discover it in the stext of this article. You see –I’m not ediing what I’ve written — all the mistakes and bad keystrokes are right her…

No one’s perfect; so why, at 75, am I still trying? I’m lying-in bed, trying to settle down enough to get asleep. But my brain keeps working overtime. I’ve made a list of things “to-do” the next day. …

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross identified the stages of grief as denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. I recently realized that I’ve gone through those stages as I grieve for Mitzi. Denial: This can’t be happening to me. I still think like I’m forty or maybe fifty. I’m not a forgetful old lady. I…

And why it may not be a good idea… After my husband and I got married ten years ago –second for both of us and we were both in our sixties — he told me he would like s dog. While driving around our little village we saw a sign…

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisitiNOon of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. President Eisenhower in his Farewell Address. Today we need to “guard against the acquisition of…

Another story from my latest hospital vacay…. How did I get to be “suicidal” — at least in the minds of the nursing staff when I was last in the hospital? Had it been something I said? If it was, I can’t remember it. Was it something I’d done? I…