Late on a Friday afternoon I sat on the floor of a shared office space in semi-lotus position, dismantling the … More
Category: Posts About Art & Nursing
Down The Rabbit Hole Part II
Just over a year ago I had the opportunity to show some of my paintings and speak to a live … More
SirenNation Art Show Opening
Imagine my surprise to find my painting Quickened Toward All Celestial Things has been given a street view exhibition space … More
Book Review: Sky the Oar, Poems by Stacy R. Nigliazzo
Sky The Oar poems by Stacy R. Nigliazzo Publisher: Press 53, 2018 Stacy R. Nigliazzo is a poet living in … More
AJN Best of The Blog Features Post by JparadisiRN
It’s an honor to have my post and illustration, A Brief Meditation on Love, Loss, and Nursing, originally published on Off the … More
Down the Rabbit Hole
Why is it 2018 feels more like “2017, The Sequel,“ and not an actual New Year? While I have one or … More
Cancer Survivorship: Breaking The Myth of “Nurses are Bad Patients”
Are nurses are the worse patients? Upon completion of treatment for breast cancer, my surgeon remarked, “You got through treatment … More
Back From The Digital Future: My Return to Paper and Ink Books
My adult life I’ve had an unreasonable fear of being without a book to read. The anxiety is triggered when … More
Applying Nursing Process and Knowing When to Quit
It was several more days later before I ripped out the knitted sleeve I wrote of in my last … More
Plateaus, New Goals, & My First Failure of 2018
2017 was a challenging year for me in many ways, some good, some not so much, but it ended positively. … More