I learned a lesson about miracles and prayer blankets recently. I never heard of a prayer blanket before. Although there are also prayer shawls knitted or crocheted with the same purpose. My neighbor, Ms. S, used to sew prayer blankets from two pieces of material a yard long and a yard wide. She used permanent … More A Blanket of Prayer
I attended and graduated from Greenville (SC) General Hospital School of Nursing in 1972. This school was one of the last three-year diploma schools. Three-year schools are now obsolete with two-year nursing schools, which offer an associates degree, and four year schools in colleges and universities, which offer training for an RN diploma and a … More Student Nurse Life in Early 1970s
My mind is boggled when I think about how far the fields of medicine and nursing have come since my mother trained in the early 1940’s. We both trained at the same nursing school, as did my sister. But we graduated in 1972 and 1973. I worked as a nurse from 1972 until 2011. I … More Nursing “Back Then” Part 1
After I graduated from high school in 1969 I started nurse’s training in a three year diploma nursing school which had opened in 1918. The rules for the student nurses were quite strenuous in those days. I remember reading a paper of dormitory rules from that era. Here are some of them with rules found … More Nursing School in the 1920’s
My husband died in 2009 of heart failure. My life changed drastically for the better. Over the years I developed coping mechanisms to help protect myself and cope with my crumbling life. Now I am learning to overcome these “no longer needed” behaviors to be healthier mentally and emotionally. I am sharing these behaviors here to … More Peace With the Past Is Near
After my husband passed away in 2009, my brother came and helped me rearrange or sort out my husband’s items and clothing. He helped me get a good footing on my life again. But my attitude about myself needed to expand to the freedom I needed in order to become the me that I was … More A New Attitude: Independent
I am, and have been for a long time, a “tree hugger.” Being a teenager in the 60s, I was a “flower child” of sorts. I loved living things and nature. I have always had a special bond with trees. Trees are a life form that I love and respect. These sentinels of nature have … More I Love Trees
Thirteen years after my husband’s death, I was happy; my back was stabilized after a long bout with sciatica from two lumber discs bulging (I lost 25 pounds, which helped a lot). I have a good home, two awesome sons and two wonderful daughters in law, and three grandchildren! (Oh, and my cat, Norie.) I … More Memories and Shiny Pennies
Workers in a tobacco field. In 2014 I joined a group on Facebook, named “I Farmed Tobacco as a Child.” But before I applied to join, I explained that I wanted to learn more about life on a tobacco farm because I had never experienced that life but had lived near tobacco fields and farms … More Tobacco Farming in the South During the 1900’s
My first son, M, met a friend, D, while riding home on the school bus from junior high school. D was the son of another family. He lived about a mile away but often rode the school bus home with M. When they met, D was in junior high and M was in 10th grade(?). … More One Son By Another Mother
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