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The Whole (almost) Family

Originally uploaded by Geek2Nurse

This is everybody but Ryan (my oldest) and Felicity, gathered in Galveston for Mom & Dad’s 50th anniversary. Click through to Flickr for labels telling who each person is.

I was just browsing some of my old Flickr photos and realized I had never shared this one on my blog. It still makes me giggle.
This was taken from the back parking lot where I used to work, at the Tuality Forest Grove Hospital Geropsych Unit. During my new employee orientation there, they [...]

Today we had our first session with our new chi gung instructor, Fred Gordon. He’s a very interesting guy. I’m really hoping this is something that can help with the ever-increasing pain Jeff is having from the degenerative disk disease in his neck, but it’s also something I’m just really interested in knowing more about.
Jeff [...]

My paternal grandma was a nurse… she died many years before I ended up following in her footsteps after my mid-life career change, but I think it would have made her proud.
Grandma had long, jet-black hair that she wore in two braids wrapped around and around her head like a halo. She was big and [...]

My lovely otherdaughter Felicity is officially a published author! A story she wrote, Burgerdroid, appears in the June issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, which is now available on a newsstand near you. You can also get it in electronic format at Fictionwise.
Yay, Felicity! I love it when good things happen to people who so [...]

My new toy(ota)

Originally uploaded by Geek2Nurse

My very first ever brand-new “just for me” vehicle.

My friend Mark recently wrote a post that spotlighted some of the frustration experienced by those of us with AD/HD and the people in our lives. This is my response to his post.
“The problem is remembering to live in the now.” ~Mark
That is what the “chronically normal,” as Dr. Fred Frese calls them (referring to [...]