by Sue | Nov 24, 2019 | Faith
“I believe I’m supposed to share this,” Joanne told me. I smiled at my friend. She is a woman who weathered the premature death of her beloved husband, cared for her father and mother for years, and recently cried at her son’s memorial service. To look at her, you...
by Sue | Nov 17, 2019 | Books & Writers
Occasionally our writers group pens what we call a “Round Robin.” It’s great fun, since none of us knows what literary masterpiece (or mess) will evolve from our blended imaginations. We each draw a number and wait for the writer who drew #1 to send us the first...
by Sue | Nov 10, 2019 | Care Giving
Hearing the first two lines of “California Dreamin’” by the Mamas and Papas takes me back to the Poor House, a popular watering hole when I was a nursing student in Syracuse. The song’s beginning phrases about brown leaves floating in a grey sky put me right there...
by Sue | Nov 3, 2019 | Body & Soul
I’m using that play on words for the title of this blog to make a point. It seems every article or book on nutrition I’ve read lately praises the health benefits of eating plants, and lots of them. But why? How are they good for us? What’s the Scoop? To find out, I...
