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Here she was in a  house that looked and smelled vaguely familiar.  There was the fragrance of lavendar around her and across the room was a table with a book resting against a vase.  It had her name on it!   She had no idea where she was but she somehow felt she should know.  She picked up the book and took it over to a chair where she sat down to read it.

Maria is a 2020's girl - she is adventuresome who loves socializing...but since this year is not working out well for her  (or anybody) she has decided that time travel is definitely worth the risks that come with this ground breaking opportunity.      She has become a volunteer subject  for testing  the latest technological advancements  in time travel or, as some people like to call it,  "touching stones."  Time travel, (although a very crude and dangerous endeavor and not known to the general population) has been around since the 1890's,  but  has been advanced to a point where within the next five years if you have the exorbitant amount of  money required, you can purchase a ticket to any time in the past four centuries or to the future within the next three centuries.    Her uncle  who works on this highly guarded  secret project which is  perfecting the engineering advancements  required to propel a person to the future or the past ,  has offered her the opportu...

I was accompanied , on my last three nights by a fresh faced young nurse called Niamh In her early twenties she is feeling her way as a professional , but shows great promise I think. I told her so, during our long hours together  And by doing so found that she bounced ideas and problems against me, as she valadated her own clinical decisions I listened with interest to her interaction with a patient who was somewhat disgruntled  He wasn't having the best of days at the hospice and was spiky and curt even though at every turn Niamh examined the problems patiently and professionally  We explored how the patient made her feel afterwards in the quiet of the staff room and I suggested that it was just ok to accept that he was angry without trying to solve every problem . Patient Anger Is not something nurses cope well with. I was then reminded of a moment long ago now when I used to care for my brother every Thursday daytime. He was confined mostly to bed then, with a bubbling tracheos...