Head Nurse

I'm on the left. (Stolen from Manolo For The Big Girl , with thanks.)

When one blogs, one gets comments. One also gets emails. It's amazing what people will say in emails that they won't say in comments...

Here beginneth, by the way, a series on what patients can expect from various fun procedures that are common at Sunnydale General. So you...

In Flanders Fields the poppies grow   Between the crosses row on row,   That mark our place; and in the sky   The larks, still bravely singi...

It's been raining buckets all day. Just now it's raining double-buckets, which makes me glad that I have a cold and the next two day...

Quick update: My folks are apparently in Mexico and are fine. Uh...okay. Now, then: What the hell is WRONG with you people? Are you all mad ...

Has anybody seen my parents? If so, could you please contact me and let me know they're okay?  I'm afraid, what with the outcome of ...

I've deleted a couple of links. They were to blogs that were, for the most part, much more conservative politically than I am. It's ...

Everybody loses patients. Everybody remembers the patients they lost--maybe not by name, or even by face, but you remember. Every patient wh...

You remember, I'm sure, the high school physics demonstration of the space/time continuum and how gravity affects both space and time. I...

Today I loaded Strider into the car. We drove east along a little state highway. Over the lake, across the creek, past the McCain/Palin bill...

Maybe next year I'll have a So Happy It's Summer edition, too. Today the low was 33. Wahoo! The guy on the radio mentioned that it w...

I'm reading Heat by Bill Buford right now, partly because I mistook "Buford" for "Bryson" and thought, "Wow! B...

Once, many years ago, I read a book called Letters to Ms . It had selections from the first ten years of the magazine's editorial letter...

Max somehow rolled under my very low platform bed while he was asleep last night: Those are his paws sticking out from under the bed. When h...

Manglement has rolled out a New Plan for us. It involves, as do so many things that Manglement thinks up, Customer Service. See, Manglement ...

There's an interesting article up at Nursing Degrees about what drives nurses out of the profession.  Here 'tis: http://www.onlinenu...