Archive for the ‘Looking Back’ Category

• Retirement is for the birds

  Friday, January 9th, 2009

  I can’t believe it! This March it will be five years since I stopped struggling out of bed at 9:45pm to get to work at 11:00pm. No more working long, cold nights on wards poorly staffed while being underpaid and under appreciated. But I miss it and would give up fighting Medicare for everything I [...]

• The strange twist in life’s Journey

  Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

  My mother graduated high school and the following year I was born. There went her dreams of becoming an English teacher. For years I heard about those dreams and felt her regret coming from every pore. My mom worked at many jobs always striving to do the best work that can be done. I can [...]

• A revisit to My Circle of Friends

  Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

  I am new to this thing called blogging and newer yet at trying to write. So when I make a mistake, I will try to fix it. Can I use my stroke from last year as an excuse? Nah, I guess not. The person I left out of My Circle of Friends is Marcie. We [...]

• Technology allows me to keep in touch with my BFFs!

  Monday, January 5th, 2009

  Most of us have heard that people are losing their ability to connect with others. For some people this is not true at all. Technology allows us to be an email or phone call away! Let me tell you about four friends that technology is keeping close. We are all southern ladies raised in intact [...]

• A Year To Remember … or Forget!

  Friday, January 2nd, 2009

    Each person will reflect on the passing year with their own intellect and emotions. Being a person who sometimes feel too much, I will first remember the great pride I feel when I think of our new president, Barack Obama. I also feel fear for the same reason. Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, [...]