THE CARE & FEEDING OF YOU. FINAL TALE FROM THE NURSING HOME By Karen Strickholm 03/21/2026 Critical Illness can turn one into a human potato! Drugs. Pain. Fatigue. Low stimulation. Low movement. Activities? We do have a weekly visit from … Continue reading → THAT NDE, NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE & ME By Karen Strickholm 03/24/2025 Have you heard about NDEs? It means Near Death Experience, in which a person experiences “the other side” in some capacity. Prior to my unfortunate incarceration in Ye Olde … Continue reading → Diné Culture YÁ’ÁT’ÉÉH, PEOPLE. By Karen Strickholm 12/18/2025 Navajo culture – aka Diné – is rich, sophisticated, robust, ancient. As a lily-white woman from northern New Jersey, this nursing home, with its many Navajo employees from the nearby reservation, is … Continue reading → MEDICAL CRASH AND BURN CHAPTER THREE By Karen Strickholm 07/30/2025 Sometimes life moves in dizzying, impossible-to-predict zigzag lines. Turns out, healing unfolds in much the same way.. Before my medical crash and burn, I thought I had everything set up … Continue reading → Emotional Support Chickens, Theft! Cluck Yeah, A NURSING HOME TALE By Karen Strickholm 09/26/2024 Sweeping the knitting world! Tens of thousands of “emotional support chickens” are flying off knitters’ needles, bringing inordinate joy to recipients. Here’s a tale about one … Continue reading → MATT & ANTHONY. A NURSING HOME TALE By Karen Strickholm 08/29/2024 Welcome to this re-imagined communique, designed to update, entertain and inform you monthly! Find tales from the inside – funny, moving, shocking, thought-provoking. Also, tips on navigatiing America’s long … Continue reading → MARIA & WHY, A NURSING HOME TALE By Karen Strickholm 12/06/2024 Today, I will tell you the tale of Maria. But first, a quick word about these missives. Why do I write them? Mainly, I want to share with you … Continue reading → THE NURSING HOME CONFESSIONAL, A NURSING HOME TALE By Karen Strickholm 05/01/2025 THE NURSING HOME CONFESSIONAL Here is a powerful nursing home story I will never, ever forget. Please allow me to set the stage for you… Day-to-day nursing home … Continue reading → ❤️⚕️❤️ STILL HERE! ❤️⚕️❤️ A NURSING HOME TALE By Karen Strickholm 09/28/2023 Greetings, my people! It’s been a beat since you’ve heard from me – more than two years, in fact. During this time, I’ve been dancing a do-si-do with … Continue reading → Dying… Or Not, How People Die. Better Days By Karen Strickholm 22/02/2021 Fall 2020 through 2021 – Long Covid, coupled with more severe endocrine/TBI symptoms, grinds on – An addled brain, micro-seizures, double vision, loss of bowel control, severe headache, … Continue reading → Made It Through Long Covid-19! A Bed In Roswell 2020-10-18 By Karen Strickholm Fall 2020 through 2021 – Long Covid, coupled with more severe endocrine/TBI symptoms, grinds on – An addled brain, micro-seizures, double vision, loss of bowel control, severe … Continue reading → Death On The Covid-19 Quarantine Ward, El Paso 2020-08-25 By Karen Strickholm August 2020 – “Contracted Covid-19. Bad. Sent to isolation COVID ward in El Paso (Texas) hospital, during that city’s peak pandemic moment – you may remember it in … Continue reading → COVID-19 In El Paso The Plague By Karen Strickholm Aug 2, 2020 THE HOSPITALS OF PROVIDENCE MEMORIAL CAMPUS August 2020 – “Contracted Covid-19. Bad. Sent to isolation COVID ward in El Paso (Texas) hospital, during that city’s peak pandemic moment … Continue reading → Karen Strickholm: A Will To Live When Health Issues Take Everything Until 6 April 2026, Karen Strickholm was living, knitting and sometimes writing from a place no one wants to be, but about 25 percent of us will wind up: … Continue reading → Martin Robison Delany: An Extraordinary, Sometimes Contradictory, Figure“Africa for Africans” Martin Robison Delany was one of the key African American figures both before and after the Civil War. Unfortunately, he is little-known today. Delany was born 6 May 1812, in … Continue reading → Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Books That Killed Their Authors On 5 June 1851, the first of 40 installments of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” were published in the abolitionist weekly newspaper The National Era. Originally subtitled … Continue reading → The Dog: Childhood Trauma And Our Nation’s Government Sponsored Cruelty Easter Sunday, 1961, I’m in my grandparent’s backyard in Northwoods, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis. I’m 2 ½ years old. It’s about 1:30PM and we, my mother, father and … Continue reading → The Dubious Triumph Of Perception As Reality It does not matter if the so-called assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents Dinner was a setup or not. Significant numbers of people think that it was, and nothing will change their … Continue reading → THE CARE & FEEDING OF YOU – FINAL TALE FROM THE NURSING HOME
THAT NDE NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE & ME
Diné Culture YÁ’ÁT’ÉÉH, PEOPLE
CHAPTER THREE. MEDICAL CRASH AND BURN
Emotional Support Chickens, Theft! Cluck Yeah, A NURSING HOME TALE
MATT & ANTHONY A NURSING HOME TALE
MARIA & WHY, A NURSING HOME TALE
THE NURSING HOME CONFESSIONAL, A NURSING HOME TALE
STILL HERE! A NURSING HOME TALE
Dying… Or Not. How People Die. Better Days
Made It Through Long Covid-19! A Bed In Roswell
Death On The Covid-19 Quarantine Ward, El Paso – 2020-08-25
COVID-19 In El Paso The Plague 08/02/20
Karen Strickholm: A Will To Live When Health Issues Take Everything
Martin Robison Delany: An Extraordinary, Sometimes Contradictory, Figure
Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Books That Killed Their Authors
The Dog: Childhood Trauma And Our Nation’s Government Sponsored Cruelty
The Dubious Triumph Of Perception As Reality
THE CARE & FEEDING OF YOU – FINAL TALE FROM THE NURSING HOME
THE CARE & FEEDING OF YOU. FINAL TALE FROM THE NURSING HOME By Karen Strickholm 03/21/2026 Critical Illness can turn one into a human potato! Drugs. Pain. Fatigue. Low stimulation. Low movement. Activities? We do have a weekly visit from … Continue reading →