Remembering Sonia

Another anniversary of this sweet GIrl’s passing has come and gone. If you have read my book you know that she was a little girl I met in Russia who was severely burned and in the end did not make it We even got her to a burn center in Moscow but it was too little too late for my sweet friend. I will always remember you sweet girl and look forward to our reunion in heaven you endured more than any little girl should ever have to endure You were so brave and I would rub your arm and you would say preyatna which means it feels so good love always… until we meet again

New Beginnings

I miss my dear colleagues at the Oregon Burn Center… the nurses who take amazing care of our patients and the incredible doctors who perform miracles of healing…

I don’t miss… the stress and the crazy morning commute… I’m thankful for my new job at JAneInk. And for an amazing group of folks at a business Networking Group… The Portland Business Advantage… New beginnings call for a new outlook – new hope and thankfulness… Check out our website at JAneink.com where will you will find lots of cool things to explore… swag and pens and cool stuff. Counting my blessings this Christmas and so thankful for all of you!

Ode to the Oregon Burn Center

After 5 years of being the Aftercare Coordinator and 30 years of association with this incredible place, I am now officially retired from the position. An amazing Survivor, Anne Scott has stepped into the role and has already been rocking it! I’m so thankful for all of my amazing colleagues and want to leave them with this poem…

THE HEALERS

The healers care so deeply… despite the cost… emotions on overflow…

but the healers persevere… until we are as healed as we can be…

Thankful for a new chance at life… a life that may look a little different but precious beyond words…

So thankful are we for your caring hearts through stress.. and long days and nights

Forever grateful…

Mona for all of us…

Through the Waters

I will be with you

A promise true and real

You will not drown

I will part the Red sea

There is life beyond these waves

If you only trust in Me

I am doing a new thing

Can you not see it?

Will you believe Me for this?

My promise to bring good from the bad things…

From the painful things…

I will Redeem all things…