I can’t tell you the peace I feel from setting aside the unknowns of the election and the incomprehensible intricacies of delivering vaccines to long-term care facilities to consider our economic future.
You’ve got a friend
By
Gary Tetz
Oct 15, 2020
Sometimes I have to stretch to recite something joyful to share from the past week, as is requested at one of our regular work meetings. But this week, the task was easy.
Get up, Bambi
By
Gary Tetz
Oct 01, 2020
At this point, we dare not muse aloud about what else could possibly go wrong in 2020. It’s no longer about the second shoe dropping. We appear to be dealing with an evil centipede who still has at least...
The face mask effect
By
Gary Tetz
Oct 01, 2020
“I’ve never seen the faces of some of the people who work for me,” a nursing home administrator recently shared. The statement stunned me but shouldn’t have. Of course she hasn’t. Since the pandemic,...
What the fires can’t destroy
By
Gary Tetz
Sep 17, 2020
With a pandemic continuing unabated, and now hurricanes, floods and wildfires ravaging large swaths of the nation, I don’t know how many more apocalyptic horsemen the long-term care profession is...
It’s raining chocolate — hallelujah!
By
Gary Tetz
Sep 03, 2020
How fondly I remember the old days, pre-2020, when Googling “long-term care news” yielded different results
Put on a Stoic face
By
Gary Tetz
Sep 01, 2020
It seems like every third word I write these days is about the importance of masks. This has clearly become an obsession, and I need professional help to break it.
Waiting for the ice cream truck
By
Gary Tetz
Aug 21, 2020
There aren’t enough covers to pull over my head anymore.
Finding joy in the grueling now
By
Gary Tetz
Aug 06, 2020
Finding joy in the difference you make is perhaps all the inspiration any of us needs.
Exhale, with love
By
Gary Tetz
Jul 23, 2020
How are those masks working out for you? My glasses are as perpetually fogged as a car windshield after prom, and I do enjoy sounding like Charlie Brown’s teacher.