Texas Independence Day

This is the Omni hotel. 

The entire front is a LED

Light display. 

The front that faces the interstate. 

Cowboys and mythology 

An hour outside Dallas 

- To the East -

They really do talk like this, darlin’!

Somethings coming

A big ass storm is what’s coming! 

Tornadoes and rain, hail and

Probably brimstone. 

Dallas is prone to downdrafts. 

Like a vertical tornado. 

And regular tornadoes. 

All hail the Kratom King! 

They are going to hospitals and Nursing Homes 

and arresting - as in handcuffs!- 

 These fraudulent “Nurses”!

Like 7,600 nationwide. 

3000+ just in Texas. 

Operation Nightengale. 

It’s a felony to impersonate a Nurse. 

The Texas Nurse Protection Act. 

Almost all states have this. 

You just can’t go around saying you’re a nurse. 

Even a nurse aid or companion 

Can’t say the magic word “Nurse”

Without that title. 

I love love love when people 

Call me Nurse Anne. 

I never get tired of hearing it. 

“Hey Nurse Anne!”

I remember the first time it hit me

That I am actually a “real deal” nurse. 

Not a Student. Not a one day gonna be. 

I was walking down the hall

After I left a patient’s room. 

I was going to go get “the Nurse.”

And it hit me. 

I AM THE NURSE!

I’ve been gobsmaked over that

For 33 years now. 

My mother was right. 

Nursing is Recession-Proof

And Pandemic-Proof. 

Never a dull moment. 

Thanks, Mother! 

I know she’s proud of me.