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The Web We Weave
On January 29th, 2014 I was honored to present at the 1st Health Informatics Tri-State Summit on the campus of the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville. The room was filled with energetic...
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Regrounding
When I painted Lori Marx-Rubiner’s jacket the lights were flickering in the high winter winds. My eldest son complained about the constant loss of WIFI. I called a Comcast technician and continued to...
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I have read many books focused on patient advocacy and one of my favorites is “For the Love of Scott” by Jo Hamilton. She gave this book to me a year before I painted her jacket story. I read the book...
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Hope
This was the third time I circled the perimeter of the College of New Jersey looking for the visitor parking lot. Most of the parking lots were an expanse of ice and snow on February 19th. I gave up...
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Dandelions and Micro Galleries
When I was a small child I would watch my grandpa walk endlessly in our back yard with his dandelion pruning fork. He would move from flower to flower lopping off the blossoms in an endless futile...
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The Walking Gallery at #Artscape2014
Having just returned from an eleven-day road trip to visit my family in Oklahoma, I am very glad to be home. I love living in a in the quiet serenity of Garrett County Maryland and miss the green...
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The Walking Gallery: Year IV
This is the fourth year of the Walking Gallery of Healthcare. We now number 310 members walking around the world with patient story paintings on our backs. This "walking wall" is changing minds and...
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The Legacy of a Free Lunch
In September of 2012, I attended an IT summit in California. It was a large event and I enjoyed painting the content of many of those who spoke about HIT (Health Information Technology.) On the...
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#Cinderblocks2: The Partnership with Patients Continues
In September of 2012 we had our first gathering of #Cinderblocks or The Partnership with Patients summit in Kansas City, Missouri. There were about 70 in attendance and everyone left filled with the...
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The Walking Gallery Center for Arts and Healing
When I was a young girl I struggled to read. In fourth grade I had a teacher that helped me beyond measure. She taught me how to read well. She cast me in the play Oklahoma. She encouraged me to...
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Top 10 Reasons we need The Walking Gallery Center for Arts and Healing in...
In the week since I started our crowdfund on Medstartr to help fund the creation of The Walking Gallery Center for Arts and Healing some folks have had a few questions about this project. Though I do...
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Rolling the Dice
I paint the patient story. Many people know that. Others who closely follow my work know that my focus in advocacy is patient data access and the patient/caregiver role in the implementation and use...
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The Business of Art
People often tell me that for an artist, I have a good understanding of business. I would hope so! I started working at the flea market in Sapulpa, Oklahoma at the age of seven. I was paid two...
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The Grantsville Art Walk was a Success!
On December 11, 2014 the Grantsville Art Walk had a reception and silent auction at Penn Alps. It was a lovely evening and the room was filled with friendship, culture and the giving feeling that...
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Can you tuck me in?
My boys are growing older. My eldest is 16 and stands 6 feet tall. He could easily pass for a grown man. My youngest is almost nine and each day I see glimmers of the man he will become. At night...
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2013: In the Rearview Mirror
Our FamilyThis was a great year. On the home front, I began the home school process with eldest son Freddie. Younger son Isaac continues to thrive in public school. He is now a proud 2ndgrader.We...
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Butterflies
What shall I explain about this painting? Shall I tell you that Mélanie Péron lives in France? Should I say that she met Nicolas in 1997 when she was only 19 and he was only 21? Shall I tell you it...
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HIMSS or Bust
Last year I had the opportunity to do an amazing interview with Tim from HIStalk. It was a wide-ranging discussion that covered a great deal of the HIT (health information technology) landscape....
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More Patient Travel Scholarships!
What does the “Cinderblocks2: The Partnership with PatientsContinues” conference (in Grantsville, MD pop. 825) and Doctors 2.0 & You conference (in Paris, France pop. 2 million) have in common?Both...
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Flying
This is February. In a few days from now thousands of people will flock to New York for Toy Fair 2015. These are the people who spend their year focused on the wants and needs of children. There...
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