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 to the local community college to study nursing. Not when...
Author: Dora
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 to a new dawn for another. How tearful prayers on one...
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 of her as a boon to dark haired women at...
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 Religious Life, posed the question: Are you spiritual or religious....
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 respectful, and try for understanding and empathy over shouting my...
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 I use (and waste) time in my day to day...
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 had bought about a year ago. Very nice place. They...
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