I don’t cook breakfast for my family every morning; however, when I cook breakfast, which is brunch due to my late rising I make an unbelievable homemade French toast. I use a recipe first perfected at Balthazar’s in New York City. My cooking and baking skills are superb, some may say that my palette is narrow which may be true, but I believe that I can cook or bake anything. When I am given the recipe and with the assurance that I would not have to eat what I cooked.
I don’t run marathons or climb mountains however; I have in the past done what needed to be done. While working as a RN I accompanied a patient that needed to be E-VACED riding in a “very old helicopter,” then as a civilian I attempted to rescue a climber on the top of a steep mountain cliff unfortunately the man had fallen to his death.
I don’t run a business but I have set up a Medical Clinic in my hometown that will care for thousands- myself and another RN started with “nothing” except a space, some basic equipment and a Benefactress dream of opening a Clinic for the “poor”.
Because of my Chronic Pain, many people view me as flawed but I have always been a “go getter.” As young as 12 I was volunteering as a Candy Striper this led me to a job in the same hospital working in the Physical Therapy department. My job entailed doing treatments to being a patient porter. This was followed by working in X-ray, and then the Operating Room, I supplemented my income with Baby-Sitting in my Neighborhood. Nursing School, work, Marriage, and children followed with many adventures sprinkled in, I have supported my Husband, my Children and my family through the years. I take great offence to people around me that have forgotten that I have achieved a GREAT deal in my life. The few examples that I have given may seem dramatic. I don’t look for extreme or dangerous risk however; I do what I need to do.
I have written this as much for myself because I tend to get very depressed due to the difficulty I have with mobility I need to remember my active years and that I still have fight with a lust for life inside myself.
My father always said, “The day after you die the world goes on without you and life is no bed of roses”. I need to enjoy each day no matter what is thrown my way.
And to those how don’t appreciate me WAKE UP!

"Flash Mobs"

The disparity between the “Haves and Have-nots” in the United States as well as the major countries around the world is alarming. We see the “people’s reaction to this condition being played out on the streets of London England this past week. The disproportion of wealth and the inequality of living standards can be felt on the streets of this Country. If leaders of this United States feel that the unrest-taking place in France, England and many other areas of our World will not jump across the pond to our shores, well they are sadly mistaken. A Texas teacher interviewed this past week on ABC News stated, “The cost of low taxes- realize that your child will be in a classroom that will have a larger number of students, and your child will have less individual attention so everything comes at a price”. We as a Nation need to care for each other, including for the less fortunate of our Country- if we don’t there will be unrest. We can see the need starting to show through the cracks, there are “flash Mobs” causing mayhem in Philadelphia and Milwaukee. The “flash Mobs” are being blamed on delinquent kids but I wonder what the real underlying causes could be.