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 →
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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 →
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❤️⚕️❤️ 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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Long Covid-19 Made It Through! 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 →
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El Paso Covid-19 Quarantine Death On The Ward – 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 … Continue reading →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Karen Strickholm: A Posthumous Autobiography Of A Brave Woman, Part 1 Billions have lived and died on this Earth, most leaving nothing more behind of themselves than bones or ash. Maybe there’s a birth announcement, then an obituary. Maybe there’s … Continue reading →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Coffee was central to prolific French writer Honoré de Balzac’s method of working. Balzac is said to have consumed as many as 50 cups of coffee per day. It’s not surprising then that coffee may have played a significant role … Continue reading →
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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 →
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