Head Nurse

For some reason which I have been, as yet, unable to discern, those members of the public who are most inclined to attempt malarkey at the h...

The Festival That Cannot Be Pronounced has begun--well, technically is beginning--in Bigton. Littleton, where I live, is not unscathed by th...

Or, for that matter, to your family members when they're in the hospital. (Inspired by  this post at XOJane, and by my own experience...

Doctor Annoyance is going away. I don't care where or when, though I know when the when will be, and believe me, it's not soon enoug...

The screaming was so loud that it brought me out of the room nearest the nurses' station with a "What the HELL?" It was a to...

I used to own a gun. It was a gun specifically designed to kill people with as much efficiency and as little subtlety as possible: a twent...

I got to thinking about this the other night, as I was rinsing out the enormous (well, not enormous, but it feels enormous) hole that goes d...

. . .I've gotten into an Ancient Cookbook Frenzy. One thing I can say for people in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: they had ...

May you all have the Humor of Donna The Heart of Rose The Patience of Rory The Balls of Amy The Bravery of Martha The Belief of Ri...

. . .you were fantastic ." Arizona north of Phoenix is, as Beloved Pens says, fucking lousy with vistas. Coming up over a series of h...

I just painted my fingernails a dark, elegant grey. My toenails are a sparkly dark red, except for the nail on the fourth toe on my right fo...

The whole damn thing's been reworked, top to bottom, and it's rumored to be the best, most efficient, most amazing computer system i...

There's nothing like coming in to work, feelin' all efficient and enthusiastic, to find that you're two nurses short in a th...

We've been having some trouble with our sheets lately. We get one size of sheet, but have three sizes of bed. In the past, the sheets fi...

Tashi just emailed me. She's starting her own fundraising efforts for Mary. Tashi. Who, by all rights, should be allowed to recover ...

Some of you know Mary Osheskie, or read her blog The Bright Optimist . Mary was one of the first people to contact me privately after I go...

I had this whole long post about little old men going septic in my head, but then I just lost the will to type it all out. Instead, let me l...

I can get anything except benzoin stains out of scrubs, but I need help on a non-stain-related issue. Recently, I got four sets of Wink sc...

For those of you wondering about Tashi, she's doing as well as can be expected. She has good moments and bad ones, but that's par fo...

Tashi brought Wash's ashes home today in his Tardis urn. This completes this stage of his journey. Next stop: Wherever, Whenever. Regu...