About this episode

The episode reflects on personal memories and the importance of showing up for others during crises.

Hello readers/viewers, and for those in the eastern half of the United States, thank you for checking in between trips to the supermarket to stock up for the coming Snowpocalypse. It is yet to be seen whether this one will one hit big or be another predicted “storm of the millennium!” that isn’t, in either event, I hope you and yours stay safe and warm. “I don’t feel the cold,” my dad, pictured above, used to say, while blowing on the wet mittens of his daughter, who definitely did and does. “It’s mind of over matter.” For those who read the most recent Night Nurse , you know my dad did not have it easy; that no one ever gave him a nickel; that he was an entirely self-made man who would go on to support his mother, two wives, and provide for his children and grandchild. He was not without fault - maybe sometime I’ll tell the story of his trying to walk out of a restaurant with a purloined steak knife in his sock (guess I just did) - but as far as showing up in a crisis, he was the man. If I have one bedrock principle, for myself and others, it’s showing up when you are needed; that you know you can call the person and say, “I need help” and they are going to get you help any way…

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