E is for Everyday Everyday, humdrum, quotidian. It’s where the story starts. It’s the ordinary world before Rumpelstiltskin comes along with his call to adventure. Most stories don’t spend very much time at this stage of the story; it’s just the jumping-off point. The truth is, it takes the protagonist a long time to live […]
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When I was flailing, floundering in a toxic work environment, I didn’t know how to get out. My inner peacemaker was at war with my need to stand up for myself. I found my way out in a graceful way that honored harmony and let me survive. I followed my curiosity to an Integrative Medicine
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About six months after I finished all of my cancer treatments, I was finally able to write a poem about it. I was at a writers’ conference, and I was given a prompt to write a poem that had a car in it. This is what came out. Pucker (originally published in F.I.N.D.I.N.G.S.) The gods line
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Today, I offer a piece of flash creative nonfiction. I Will Not Let You Go Unless You Bless Me I’ve been managing, just. With planning and budgeting of time and energy, I have made it through the last five days of doing the work of three people. I send a text to Diane to tell
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As a woman in the helping professions, I have struggled with finding my voice. I have struggled especially with expressing anger in a graceful, professional way. These are the things that have helped me. Mindfulness meditation. Daily meditation helps me regain my equanimity quickly. It doesn’t mean I don’t get angry, but when I do,
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Challenge Accepted! Beginning Wednesday, April 1, 2020, I will be posting on the theme “Stepping Stones on the Path of Transformation.” Since this challenge coincides with National Poetry Month, each post will be related to poetry in some way, whether it’s a poem, a prose poem, a lyric essay, or some hybrid of all of
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A newsletter I follow, 33 Charts, a blog on Medicine and Technology by Bryan Vartabedian, MD, came back online with an apology for “going dark” after nothing was posted for several weeks. Metaphors matter. I prefer Jocelyn Glei’s language for gaps in creativity, lying fallow. When I say I’ve been lying fallow, I like the
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This year, 2020, feels different to me. Last year, I was organized and disciplined about the way I approached my annual goals. I planned in December 2018, and I hit the ground running. I had two goals for each quarter of the year, and I made significant progress on almost all of them. This year,
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This week, I was asked to speak at the AtlantiCare World AIDS Day Remembrance Ceremony. I’ve written about World AIDS Day before, as an illustration of teamwork in healthcare and as an example of attending to grief. I think what I like best about World AIDS Day is that it acknowledges that professional caregivers are
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The feeling of connection with my readers is what keeps me writing week after week. Today, I rediscovered the website of another woman physician, Dr. Catherine Cheng, whose blog is titled Healing Through Connection. She is an internist from Chicago, and she participated in National Blog Post Month (NaBloPoMo) for the fourth time this year.
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