Nursing is defined by providing care for the sick, further defined by Florence Nightingale as utilizing our environment to provide care for the sick to aid in their recovery.  Even back in 1856, Nightingale saw the connections between environment and health, health and community, community and environment: “The health of the unity […]

      The negotiations and renegotiations had begun. Ultimately, I landed on a single ask, “as long as they are healthy…” Though what I really meant, but could not say was, “as long as they are alive… as long as we are alive.” In reality, I wanted more than that, I wanted a birth […]

leaving   then this is a treatise on leaving  how it is inside but needs to get   beyond  i’m reading a novel on leavings to escape what is the rest of the world: 700,000    souls departing &  those who don’t believe the validity of this disease              i’m […]

I grew up in a town with a population of 900. We knew everyone; they us. I grew up knowing who died, who became a parent, who divorced, whose barn burned and the date we’d all meet to rebuild. I lived on a lonely country road ten miles from my high school whose last stretch […]

  My last patient had screened negative for all COVID symptoms in the waiting room, and his temperature was 97F, like everyones. We could set ourselves on fire and the touchless thermometers would still read 97.2, 96.4. Before entering the exam room, I looked at the stack of PPE, which we counted each morning. I […]