Nancy and I – we get it.  When you work with or for a man-child, you have to be the mom.  Stand your ground.  No equivocating.  No expectation of reasonable behavior.  I work as a CNA for a home-health agency.  My introduction into the low-wage world of basic medical care has been eye-opening.  Management’s treatment…

I’m taking some online prerequisites through a community college as well as a nurse aide class in an ugly strip mall an hour’s trip from home on mass transit (bus and train).  I’d like to go to nursing school eventually; but due to the shortage of nursing instructors, schools are very selective.  Due to that, I’m…

I can’t get the image of the girl with the umbrella on the Morton salt container out of my head.  I also imagine my mom saying, “Into each life, a little rain must fall.”  In the last nine months, three friends have died.  In addition, this morning I received an email from the clinic where…

I was delighted to read this week that the Watergate break-in was not the only noteworthy event from the week I was born.  Title IX, which requires federally-funded schools to spend equally on sports for both genders, came into the world at the same time I did.  As someone who attended Catholic schools from kindergarten…