Our Mission: Liberate the Power Ranger from Marcus, the leader of a nefarious gang of three year-olds with a penchant for beheading the Rangers and stuffing them up their noses. Objective: Release the head of the Power Ranger from the cave and reattach to his body. Obstacles: Nasal mucus, boogers, an uncooperative mastermind, an adult […]

Tonight, I wake without the tones. It is a bitter awakening, opening my eyes and knowing quite certainly that I am dead. The hunger is constant, the daily need to feed the only reason to continue this existence. That, and I kind of like it, once I make my daily peace with my being. A […]

I need to re-assess my value system concerning glove use. For years, the first thing I did before any and all patient contact was glove up. I just didn't feel safe or protected without them. Time and runs add up, after decades and thousands of calls my religions adherence to PPE policy went out the […]

A thirty-five year old guy sits in the lobby of a waterfront hotel, one shoe missing and bleeding from a cut on his head. Three police officers are with him, asking questions. I put a bandage on the wound and hand him an ice bag. The police ask the usual questions; how many assailants, can […]

"He's dangerous." "Robert?" "Yes, Robert is dangerous, we all are. But Sid." "Sid is not well." "Have you known him long?" "Centuries." The night grew short, only an hour before the sun rose, and my waking hours ended. I long for the days when a sunrise would not be the end of me, a finite […]

Soft, muffled sobs, private sounds of desperation, for how long I don't know, I was asleep. Pain there, pain and sorrow, kept hidden, allowed escape in solitude lest the rest worry. My eyes stay closed, my body still, my mind blazing and hot ready to explode, and free the river of tears to join hers, […]

Ten years fighting a war that has lost the interest of the American people does not diminish the sacrifice, hardship and isolation those who have chosen to fight that war endure. Our soldiers are still there, still in harms way, and still doing the job they were sent to do. Eighty-six US troops had amputations […]