Unsung Heroes...

Unsung Heroes The front page of last Sunday’s Fayetteville Observer newspaper featured the story of Specialist Clayton McGarrah of the United States Army, killed at the age of 20 in combat in Afghanistan on July 4th.  The picture of his young widow standing over his casket stopped my heart for a moment.  I literally had to sit down to read.  I was moved to tears over the story of this young man who so selflessly...

If the Shoe Fits: Red Heels for Nurses?...

At a recent conference I attended, I went out to dinner one night with a group of nurse educators.  Two of them were faculty from a school of nursing, and had plenty to say about the new class of nurses that they had just graduated. “They wanted to wear red shoes to their pinning ceremony,” said one of them.  “Red, high-heeled shoes.   Can you believe it?” “Not just one of them,” her colleague said. ...