“A world without Rebecca is not a world worth living in,” she said. A little extreme perhaps, but I appreciated the sentiment. She was the dean of the natural sciences department. I was a well-liked adjunct instructor of anatomy and physiology. I had just told her I was leaving her institution to adjunct at another…
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Back to the Future
“That’s a real one,” I said to the group of four nursing students as they pulled a vertebral column (backbone) out of their bone box. “What do you mean real?” one asked. I laughed. “Real. As in it used to be in someone’s body.” I watched as two of them lost all color and leaned…
Another Crazy Idea?
Not too long after I started teaching Anatomy &Physiology lab at a local college, one of the tenured professors asked me if I was considering getting a doctorate and teaching full-time at a college. “No, I don’t think so,” I said. “It’s a lot of time and money to get a doctorate. And I have…
Words That Made A Difference
I wasn’t always a very optimistic person. In fact, I clearly remember a time in my life when my mother told me over and over to “look on the bright side.” Mom tells me she doesn’t recall that. Which reminds me of a little girl on Oprah whose mother had passed away. The mother knew…
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