I have been working on cleaning out my attic. I decided to use my time wisely while I am home and not running to a million kid activities. It has been very eye opening to say the least. We have a huge dumpster that I am slowly filling up which...
Newslines5120 A bunch of friends - some of which I just met last night - met for book club. I used to read a lot and, for some reason I fell out the habit. I like reading … I needed a book club to force me back into it. We...
March 8th is the date of the first confirmed positive COVID-19 case in Iowa. Since that time our daily activities have forever changed. This pandemic has been an unchartered path for each and every one of us. As an organization we have had many challenges, with those came many changes....
I was in Colorado in February for an American Hospital Association meeting. The hotel sent a survey and I responded and also asked if they found a swimsuit in my room that I was missing. It was new and cool and couldn’t find it. They responded that “yes, indeed you...
It is easy to feel like your emotions are all over the place during this time because let’s be honest, our emotions are all over the place. I find that I have been quick to shed a tear and quick to anger lately. These are two very different ends of...
When I was in college I had a finance professor tell me about the Chinese curse which states “May you live in exciting times.” Being young I had no idea what this really meant, I think I now understand the context behind this. These times of COVID-19 have been exciting,...
Every day is different. Every day presents a potentially different path, another fork … another choice. Whether it’s the big perspective on how we are going to come out of this and what are we going to do when that happens or something as small as personal choices at home...
Taking stock of my life in this age of pandemic, I’m finding out a lot about myself. Take yesterday for instance … my hospital Facebook video didn’t load so I had to re-video myself three times. My internet didn’t work at my house yesterday because the whole company was down...
We started this adventure called COVID-19 on March 16th as an organization. Four short weeks later we have experienced a tsunami of changes. I like to think we are a very flexible and adaptable team but this has definitely put us to the test. One common theme that I have...
I was doing this ride yesterday on my peloton, and the instructor was talking about (this was recorded on Sunday morning) the concept of hope. Peloton is located in Manhattan and if you’ve seen anything on the news about New York, you know that it is the epicenter of the...
