Jul 8, 2019 |
Recently I had the opportunity to foster two eight-week-old orange kittens from a cat shelter where I volunteer. It was ‘kitten season’ and the shelter building was filled with tiny meows. During an unscheduled ‘stop in’ on June 6th, several of...
May 21, 2019 |
I was a college senior, in my last semester of school, when my mom was diagnosed with cancer. She died four months later, in May. Her death changed my life because though I did graduate with a degree in Journalism, as I write this, it is 37 years later, and I have...
May 1, 2019 |
Tomorrow is move-in day to our new HQ. After 16 years of helping and supporting patients and families through the healthcare maze, we get to move in to what we’ll call home. I can hardly believe it. Though we settled on the building in late February, we have...
Mar 3, 2019 |
As of this writing, my two almost-eighteen-year-old cats, Connor and Graycie, are on hospice. Yes, hospice. For cats. Who knew? They’ve been ‘on’ hospice for one year as I made the decision not to hospitalize Graycie again last February after her...
Jan 7, 2019 |
I guess I’m old enough now. Old enough. Wise enough. Experienced enough to mentor a young person. Though I have been coaching and mentoring nurses here in my role at Guardian Nurses for many years, I have been co-coaching a 9 year old girls’ basketball...
Nov 21, 2018 |
It has been said that if you find a job that you love, you’ll never ‘work’ another day in your life. Thankfully, I found Guardian Nurses. OK, well I founded Guardian Nurses, but why split hairs? I remember well the ‘early days’ of the...
