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  1. “have you ever been to the O’keefe museum in Santa Fe”

    I went this past Spring, for the first time, it was fascinating. A number of pieces of her very early work, which really showed me just how talented she was at an early age – 15, 16 or so. It’s a lovely museum, well worth the effort.

    There is also the O’Keeffe cafe right next door. My aunt and I went for lunch afterwards — very yummy.

    http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/
    http://www.okeeffecafe.com/

  2. Legion:
    Thanks so much, will google your suggestions in a bit

    MM:
    I hear you completely. I work in a field where my days consist of worrying if the first class seat “XX singer” is in is good enough and paying a nail tech on time who commands $15K for 2 weeks on the road in Europe otherwise she won’t go and then the artist won’t go on the promo trip!
    so clearly you can see am really done with my line of work!

    It’s inspiring though that you have successfully re-invented yourself 3/4 times in your life and hopefully each time you have loved what you did. Columbia is $$$, don’t any of the CUNY schools offer what you are interested in?

  3. Kens,
    very interesting about the reduction of PAs.
    Remember PAs were created after Vietnam war when a lot of medics returned to the US with tremendous skills. There was also a bit of a shortage of MDs at the time so the concept was placed into practice. However, PA’s (no offense to anyone who is) do not have a unique body of knowledge. Nurses however, have a long history of maintaining and adding to a unique perspective of health. Originally I thought the concept of an advanced practice nurse (i.e. NP) would be a fad, however, I’m feeling like the PA will eventually fizzle out since the market no longer supports the concept so easily. Additionally, I think PAs will not have a strong political voice: from what I’m reading there are only 79,980 PAs eligible to practice in the US (see http://www.aapa.org/about-pas/data-and-statistics/389-2008-data ). Compare this to over 2.9 miliion nurses (2004 data) who aer gaining in polical clout.

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