By Marion Leary and Jen Leary Christmas is supposed to be the season of giving, but more and more, it feels like the season of material giving. When Jen and I were young, our parents would turn Christmas morning into a scene from a movie: we would come down the…

Like many who feel compelled to put pen to paper, I sometimes struggle with “writer’s block.” For months I had been struggling — not just writing for my #phd dissertation, but everything, manuscripts, blog posts, and articles. It wasn’t my classic writer’s block, though; it was more than that. Merely…

Last week was Nurses Week! A week established to recognize the contribution of nurses worldwide. This year’s nurses week is more important than ever, due to the convergence of the leaked supreme court opinion overturning Roe vs. …

Six weeks ago, I was in the best shape I’ve been in for some time physically and mentally; I felt great! I was working out 5 days a week doing peloton cycling and boxing, yoga, and mixing in the treadmill, seriously I felt terrific. I love working out — it…

Robin Cogan MEd, RN, NCSN, FAAN, Jess Dillard-Wright, Ph.D., MA, RN, CNM, Barbara Glickstein, MPH, MS, RN, Marion Leary, MSN, MPH, RN, Wanda Montalvo, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, Monica Mclemore, Ph.D., MPH, RN, FAAN, Ann Marie Moraitis, Ph.D., MS, RN, Anna Valdez, Ph.D., RN, PHN, FAEN, FAADN, Rae Walker, Ph.D., …

As a nurse and public health practitioner, I understand the devastation the pandemic has caused on my colleagues, their patients and families, and the world at large. I believe wholeheartedly in science, and I am very much pro-vaccine. Still, I am also a person who suffers from several severe allergies…

In July, I wrote a blog post entitled: If nothing else, we are eating well! and that has not changed. Staying home and working from home because of the pandemic has allowed me much more time to be adventurous in the kitchen - and to show me how much I…

You can’t understand the pride you feel for a city like Philadelphia unless you are from Philadelphia, you just can’t. It is not something you can put into words, or compare. It’s like the word “jawn”, you know what it means but it’s difficult to describe. I will be the…

I keep trying to put impactful words to paper, to somehow express what the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court means to me and my family — in a time when nothing makes sense, the cogent words just won’t come — but I’ll do it anyway, because…