Dora

Dora is a pediatric critical care nurse. Therapy to alleviate the stress in her professional life include traveling around the world, reading, partner dancing and hosting dinner parties.

Unstoppable: WHO Year of the Nurse and the Midwife

I never planned on becoming a nurse. In fact, when my father proposed nursing as a career, I flatly rejected it. *I* couldn’t go...

Mormons and death: Giving the gift of life

When I first signed up to write this post, I had stories to tell. Specific stories about how tragedy in one family lead...

I might have liked Ptolemaic Egypt …

Cleopatra is a name that conjures up visions of a siren wearing elaborate gold headdresses, fine linen, and thick kohl eyeliner. Generally, I think...

Spiritual versus Religious

This summer, at the inaugural conference of the Mormon Chapter of the Foundation for Interreligious Diplomacy* held at USC, James Burklo**, Associate dean for...

Namaste

Namaste. A simple enough word. Three syllables. Short vowels. Before traveling in Nepal, it was just a word that everyone uttered at the end...

Loving thy neighbors … as themselves

Generally, I'm a likeable person. Or maybe I should say that I'm not a very dislikeable person. I tend to be thoughtful, quiet and...

Like sand through the hourglass …

Lately, I've been thinking about time. No, not in the loft space-time-continuum, or deity-time-versus-human-time, or even time-left-until-death. No, I've just been thinking about how...

Learning to scale back

Earlier this month, I helped some old friends stage their home, in order to get higher offers. It was not an ideal situation. They...
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