Falling Apart

"Just when it looks like life is falling apart, it may be falling together for the first time. Trust the process of life, and not so much the outcome. Destinations have not nearly as much value as journeys. So maybe you should let things fall apart if that's what's happening. The nice thing about things falling apart is that you can pick up only the pieces that you want." ~Neale Donald Walsch

Sunday, July 13, 2025

After All Is Said and Done

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Whose Idea Was This?? With such an auspicious Hospital background, it's a wonder I didn't finish Medical School. Or even start. Didn...
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Thursday, June 26, 2025

Frank Pascente Jr.

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Yes. That was his name. Frank Pascente Jr. I think he may have been in room #327 when our paths crossed. I had been a teenybopper Candystrip...
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Friday, November 3, 2023

The Most Dangerous Day in Human History

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Candystriper life. Seeing a lot of unexpected things working in a hospital environment maybe helped me grow up fast in some ways... or grow ...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

The Irony

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St. Joseph Hospital, Elgin, IL Does it make any sense to you at all that on many days, tiny me was "in charge" of our tiny ER? Me ...
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Tuesday, October 10, 2023

After Life

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The tiny ER, where I was sent to spend most of my time that year, was next to the tiny Morgue, which had a door with a window of frosted gla...
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Friday, October 6, 2023

Hospital Interlude

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Candy Striper. What on earth? Could that be what you called someone who made fudge? Cotton candy? Random possibilities come to mind with tha...
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Saturday, March 6, 2021

One Failed Nun

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In my early teens I had dreams of becoming a nun and going to the Congo to work with Dr. Albert Schweitzer and saving lives. Guess I was a h...
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Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Silence of The Lamb

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Shy? Timid? It's not that I didn't have a voice. I just couldn't use it.  Of course I could chime in at Grandma's, at home, ...
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Thursday, February 21, 2019

Getting High (Jr. edition)

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Abbott Jr. High School, Elgin, IL Ever gone out of your comfort zone and deliberately entered into enemy territory? As a mild mannered 11 ye...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Magic Sheets?

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The Rolling Stones got all the credit. All the money. But they owe me. Long before “Paint It Black” rocked the music world, a strange litt...
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Monday, February 4, 2019

Evolution

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                                              (Adam Voorhes) First day of kindergarten. My Mom drops me off at Gifford Elementary and leaves...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

"Have a Nice Day"

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"HAVE A NICE DAY!" Yeah, in all modesty, I weaponized that. So back in the day during the absurdity that was covid, my daughter, W...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Overflow

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"They've had loss and been broken more than we will ever know, but it's the tenderhearted who let life overflow."    -Sara...
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Monday, December 28, 2015

Full Circle

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I never met her. And yet here I was carrying a container with her ashes to their final resting place. So bittersweet. But go ahead and ac...
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