Glasses
Sometimes I wish I could see perfectly. 20/20 vision floats around my head, whispering its sweet words of finally having a body that actually does what a body is supposed to do. It is no great disaster in the modern era to be in need of glasses, not even, as I am, with the awful […]
This is More Fun
What do cancer and earrings have in common? Check out the latest creative writing piece by Marquette Magazine featured writer Dawn Adamson. For quite some time I have been visiting a young woman with a terminal disease. In the past, I would join her for tea, a wicked game of cribbage or scrabble. I haven’t […]
Vortical Flow
Latest creative writing piece by Dawn Adamson Need some fresh perspective on the frigid cold of winter this year that will warm up your face with a smile? Read the latest creative writing piece by Dawn Adamson, This winter has been brutal on the heart, the body, and the soul. Apparently, we are in some […]
Finding Center
Winter Reflections from Tom Vajda… Center. This is the time of year when it is easy to lose the center and wobble out of control in one direction or another. We wake up when it is dark, go to work when it is dark and when we return home, it is dark again. We walk […]
Compassion Meter
I have a compassion meter. This meter has become extremely sensitive and fine-tuned. It happened while being a mom and working as a nurse in oncology. As an oncology nurse and someone who now does hospice and home healthcare when I can, I developed a Zero-tolerance meter. I don’t understand how people can be mean. […]
About This
About this. There is something about the word about. It always gives me away. It bothered me and I started to wonder why. So here’s what happens. In the course of a conversation, if I say about, no matter where I have lived, I get asked the question, “Are you from Canada?” This question always […]
Newtons Laws
My father was a physicist, chemist and a mathematician. He taught at MSHS. Loved it. I grew up with his students coming to the house and phrases such as force equals mass times acceleration. A body at rest tends to stay at rest. For every action there is an equal an opposite reaction. To be […]
