My ex-husband put himself through nursing school by working as an orderly at a hospital. He worked the psych unit and the ER as an orderly and did over 30 years as an ER nurse. He saw a lot of psych patients over that time. His expertise helped me once, when I had a bad…
Category: family
Song Lyric Sunday — Danny Boy
image link and more info about the song Although there were several good choices for Song Lyric Sunday’s theme of boys, I chose this one. My firstborn is named after it and it is one that makes me cry every time I hear it sung right. Joe Feeney, who sang many beautiful Irish tunes on…
SoCS — Old Hen
Stream of Conscious Saturday — ma Ma is what my mom and her sibs called their mother, my grandma. When I tried to call her ma she jumped all over my case and wouldn’t hear of me or my sibs using that term. We were expected to call her mom. Nothing else would do. She…
Mi Familia
image link A family gathering gives, Appreciating why one lives Reminisces, laughter galore About things serious before Time, growth, and love blossoms forgives. Sons, now men, have women to love Humble prayers they would be beloved Helpmates, companions, hand in hand Cherished partners, unfolds as planned Thank you, Grace from dverse for the prompt today…
Famnimals
image link Late start tonight for Fandango’s One Word Challenge, where the word is belong. A little bit of writing, then a diamante poem. I remember reading a book by Anne Tyler, “The Accidental Tourist”, a long time ago. Later I saw the movie, which was good, starring William Hurt and Geena Davis. I don’t remember…
kin(d)
image link The world of social services, neglect/abuse cases, family courts, has a term for individuals who aren’t biological family but act in the same capacity as family. The term is fictive kin. When children (using children here but it could be one child) are removed from their biological parent(s) for allegations/substantiations of abuse/neglect, often…
Poetry Day 13 — Attitude & Price
Today’s offering is in the following form: The Blitz Poem, a poetry form created by Robert Keim. The prompts for today’s OctPoWriMo includes, “If I Were You. Are there things you sometimes need to get off your chest? When was the last time you felt strongly that someone needed to see things from your point…
Tao Talk 