Pat Good Stories

Good Stories that Light the Way

Tag: resilience

  • THE DUNGEON

     by Patricia Elaine Francis Good One day, during my career with the Easter Seal Society I found myself in the worst possible situation that I had ever been in or ever would be again in my career.  It started one day when my boss called from Dallas to tell me that Easters Seals had decided…

  • DO TREES CRY WHEN THEIR LEAVES FALL?

    It’s December in Texas and I have been watching leaves turn bright red, yellow and soft brown for weeks.  But, now the wind is taking the leaves away from their mother trees and I feel the sorrow of the trees’ loss. When I was a child, one of my fondest memories happened when the leaves…

  • COVID STORIES WORTH REMEMBERING

    I had an experience of being mis-diagnosed and ended up in a COVID-ICU Unit. But, my story pales by comparison to the stories worth remembering that I heard from the Covid ICU nurses.  During this Covid Pandemic, I had been careful to follow the CDC guidelines and quarantined at home.  Taking the vaccines had relieved…

  • A Promise

    by Patricia F. Good Word When the hospice movement finally spread from Europe to the United States, the office of the second location was in Austin, Texas. At the time I just happen to be working for a non- profit in Austin as a development officer. At lunch with a friend I learned that she…

  • The Dress

     by Patricia Elaine Francis Good No matter what it cost, why or when you wore it, every woman has a dress that has mattered more to her than any other piece of clothing she’s ever worn.  For most women, that is her wedding dress.  Filled with happy memories of one day that seems to hold…