Archive for the ‘My Journey’ Category

• Social networking brings me an unexpected gift

  Thursday, February 25th, 2010

  Retirement and a chronic illness has left me searching for an alternative method for renewing friendships or forming new ones. This last month I have renewed a friendship with a young woman who was an integral part of my youth. I became a member of Classmate.com on a whim. I got a shock [...]

• Political correctness a step to far

  Friday, January 15th, 2010

  I am in my sixth decade of life so I have been Black for a very long time. I remember sitting in the back of the bus. I have seen and experienced a lot of things where it comes to race. But I think sometimes political correctness can go a little crazy [...]

• Continuing through my travels of the medical profession

  Monday, January 11th, 2010

  I have to say this again. I have been a RN since 1963. I worked full time plus part time jobs and well as as much overtime as I could get. Why am I saying this? Because I have had time to observe doctors and can make a judgment on which doctors [...]

• Dying to be thin

  Thursday, September 17th, 2009

  I have chronicled my fight with weight and know what its like to want to be thin. I have gone to some extreme methods to try to lose weight due to the pressure I put on myself and the pressure I received from society. I can remember a fad that was going around [...]

• Looking back

  Saturday, September 5th, 2009

  I guess as we live longer we forget things and I am guilty of this. I meant to write an anniversary post last month but with somethings going on in my life I just forgot. Looking back over the year that I have been blogging it has been times of frustration, [...]