In the Practice of Her Calling

During COVID-19, I think about my mother every day. She was essential. She would have been there for other people.

Hands. Image by Costanza on Flickr

NOTE: My mother passed away many years ago, but not a day of the pandemic goes by that my heart does not go out to nurses, and their families.

My mother was a nurse, and it defined her life. She fought her parents to become one, put herself through school without their…