Monthly Archives: January 2017

Confidentially, DON’T READ THIS

This is only a test. I believe I could publish international secrets in my blog, and they’d be safer here than in the Pentagon’s email servers. Why? Hardly anyone reads my blog, unless I send a link, and even then, … Continue reading

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He won! Science Fiction Fans, your ~VOTES~ counted! P&E polls 2016

Chet Gottfried you totally deserve first place! CONGRATULATIONS!    The amazing Chet Gottfried, photographer, novelist, short story writer and contributor to Perihelion, shared some of his secrets for capturing incredible, gorgeous, and amazing images of bugs (not the staph kind, … Continue reading

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Letitia Carson, freed slave, doesn’t ‘put up and shut’ up in Jane Kirkpatrick’s award-winning historical-fiction novel”A Light in the Wilderness”

 A Light in the Wilderness: A Novel by Jane Kirkpatrick brings to life a little-known woman who made history. Earning her freedom and keeping it at a time when  laws prohibited blacks from living in Oregon, Letitia Carson, a freed … Continue reading

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OB ER: “You just don’t know what’s coming through the doors next”

During a sleep study last year, I was in the charge of a nurse named Pat who has so many interesting stories to tell, I urged her to write them down. As I was leaving at dawn, she stopped me at … Continue reading

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Having wheelchairs ready and waiting is good customer service (Supersizing too + Radio Frequency Identification #RFID)

Quick:  How many wheelchairs does your facility have? Do you know where they all are? Keeping track of wheelchairs may be a low priority on busy staff members’ radar screens, but it keeps the hospital’s operating costs down and customer service ratings … Continue reading

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