Value of an American

If you’ve ever wondered why women feel the need to have a women’s movement (yes, I mean feminism) maybe this will help. There’s a national campaign to have Andrew Jackson – who happens to be the founder of the democratic party and the face on the 20 dollar bill – replaced with a lady (you …

Trouble in the Burbs

Disclaimer: I'm not sure I can honestly call where we live 'the burbs' - we're inside one of the two major beltways that wrap around Houston and that's plenty of city to choose from, but it's a subdivision and has that suburban feel so that's what we'll call it.  It was the last night of The …

Boxed In

  I’m sitting here amid a pile of boxes. We’re moving again – less than a year from the last move, but that’s okay because this is looking to be the last for a long while – but that reassurance doesn’t make it any easier to pack things up. Amidst all the non-packing, it dawned …

Why Not?

My friend recently gifted me with his candle making supplies. As he was trying to de-clutter, I really couldn't say no, could I? Here even brought everything by, all nicely packaged in a crate, and dumped it in my dining room. My daughter was entranced. Enough so that this child whom, for lack of an …

Timing is everything

I'm an early person. This was molded into me at an early age by my parents - both of which did time in the military. In fact, my Dad used to say 'if you aren't 15 minutes early, you're late.' This made the teen year curfews particularly difficult, of course, and is the reason I'm …

Scattered About

So, yes, I did write a short story you can pop over to http://www.chanteehale.com to read it. I'm hoping to have a chance to work on a longer work this summer, so that may be it for the shorts for a while, and that's assuming that my hunt for the ultimately awesome RN job drags on …

One Last Thing

It's getting late, folks. By the time this posts - with a bit of luck and a life-time worth of studying - I'll be graduating nursing school in a week. Over the past month and a half I've led you through the sort of random train of events that culminated in my own foray into the …

This ‘n’ That

I'm 8 weeks from finishing my nursing degree, folks. It's a good feeling, providing it lasts all the way to that diploma in my hand. I'll still have coursework towards my BSN after that, but I'm looking forward to a little more time for family, writing, and hopefully some gainful employment - preferably in the …

Talking Mental Health Reform

I've been struggling with this post for several days now. As an idealistic nursing student who just came off of her psych rotation and a person who counts beloved family members and friends among those with mental illnesses the whole mental health issue is an important one to me. What I didn't want was to …

Because my husband said it best

Nathan L. Hale: "Why?" This is the question everyone seems to be asking. Why would someone do something so horrendous to such innocent children? As if there could be some answer to that question. What answer could possibly serve to explain, excuse or vindicate these actions? The question I ask is "when?" When will we …