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Aug 24, 2025

Tree of Heaven is Poisonous

To people. To birds. To other things you grow.

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Jun 29, 2025

When Young Chickens Cry for Help

When Young Chickens Cry for Help

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Apr 6, 2025

Living Alone and the “Long Lie” Everyone needs a plan, not just the elderly.

“The Long Lie” is being stuck lying on the floor for longer than 1–2 hours. It happens to people who live alone, or who who spend most of…

Living Alone and the “Long Lie” Everyone needs a plan, not just the elderly.

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Feb 28, 2025

Looking forward to the Ides: Home Health Nurse, Edition 2

Tomorrow is Blackout Friday!

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Feb 5, 2025

Oh, February! Diary of a Home Health Nurse, Edition 1

The end of January brought a thaw in Ohio this crazy year of 2025. We can see grass again. This morning the sky was gray and spitting…

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Jan 28, 2025

LGBTQ and the Internet

My trans children have asked me to change platforms, social media, chat providers, and browsers.

LGBTQ and the Internet

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Jan 18, 2025

Musings of Frozen Captina Creek, Coal Barges, Fox, and Windshields

This morning I was stopped in a line of traffic at the only light in Powhatan Point, heading south to my first patient around 10am. I was…

Musings of Frozen Captina Creek, Coal Barges, Fox, and Windshields

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Jan 29, 2024

Issues Understanding the American chestnut tree

The American chestnut, Castenea dentata is trying to go extinct on us due to a canchre blight, Cryphronectria parasitica.

Issues Understanding the American chestnut tree

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Feb 2, 2023

BIMS, Alzheimers, Nurses and Accuracy

Have you ever been asked to repeat the words, “sock,” “blue,” and “bed?” If so, a cognitive function test has been done on you.

BIMS, Alzheimers, Nurses and Accuracy

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Nov 24, 2022

Velcro Straps and Elastic Shoe Laces

My husband and I wear the same size shoes. I’m 5'11". I wear a women’s size 12, which is a men’s size 10 1/2 to 11. My first husband wore…

Gwen Giffen

Gwen Giffen

I enjoy writing about history, genealogy, people, human and livestock health care, plants, pets, social justice, LGBTQ issues, and Quaker history.

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