The crazy lady strikes again for Friday, December 29, 2006

In my last entry, I talked about the survivors of the 1972 Andes crash. I've been thinking all day about these sixteen young men, and I think I've finally extracted an important lesson from their story - a story with which I am almost as familiar as I am with my own. It's the same one SuccessWarrior has been trying to teach us in Holy Church of Blog, if you think about it. (I link to that blog on the side of all my blogs.) These sixteen survivors didn't passively wait for God to intervene in... Sign in to see full entry.

This morning (12/29/2006), the History Channel has been running a Real to Reel feature, with a focus on the survivor of a 1972 airplane crash in the Andes mountain range. They ran the movie Alive, followed by a half-hour special entitled Die Another Day. The real-life story goes something like this. In October of 1972, 45 passengers and crew (the passengers were mostly the members of the Uruguayan Old Christians rugby team, and their loved ones and friends) took off from a Carrasco, Uruguay... Sign in to see full entry.

A comment on my last entry to this blog prompted me to return to a specific discussion of nursing and its dominance by women. I've found, in my experience as a chronic health-care consumer, that nursing is indeed a pink-collar ghetto, whether we like the idea or not. I can think of perhaps a handful of men I've known personally who have maintained a nursing practice, and the majority of them are in intensive-care nursing, where the stakes are high and decisions must be made on a split-second... Sign in to see full entry.