9 Months to birthing my BESTSELLER!

The Danger to America Comes From Within

^{_{The danger to America comes from within. We are under siege. We are being subjected to a pervasive, vile and yet subtle domestic terrorism on a level unseen (and not readily perceived) in modern times. Perhaps, because we are captives of our value of free speech, free speech (as well as actions and behaviors) is being used as a weapon to incite anarchy in this present time, and specifically, with this President.}}

 
Bernard Descamps 

 

_{^{Remember Timothy McVeigh and his cohort, Terry Nichols about fifteen years ago ushered in a ferocious domestic terrorism that targeted all Americans, not just one group. While we looked for the usual suspects, the American Pie Brigade struck. And, they continue to strike.}} 

When the Sarah Palin's, Rush Limbaugh's, and the Tea Party types command media attention to increase their notoriety behind the guise of free speech, then we Americans become victims and hostages to our highest ideals essentially aiding and abetting fear mongering, hatred and racism. In that sense, the extremist right-wing, is openly raping American values and integrity.

This type of social unrest is to be expected. The election of the first Black President has effectively served to realign the universe not only for Americans but the world. We are in the fog of America's twenty-first century reconstruction.  And, we, you and I are articulating this societal reconstruction. Those that claimed power and domination for so long see the clear shift in the power and control paradigm. 

The forces of hell are being released. If ever there was a time to believe in the power of good ... and to be a force for social good, it is now!

What can ordinary citizens do?  Fight back. Do not let extremism and fear mongering over take reason and control our country. These strains of hate, anarchy and extremism resemble Nazism, acts of sedition and the prelude to a civil war. Inform yourselves. Speak up. Speak out. 

Americans will always believe and uphold free speech. Yet, calls for anarchy, acts of sedition, "Reload," and "kill" demand our collective voice in dismantling of these forms of domestic terrorism. Never has the importance of your voice, your vote and your participation in the future of our country and our children's future been more important.

Adrienne Zurub

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What Tradition in my life is most important to me?

What tradition in your life is most important to you?
Submitted by [ A ] : capture. create.

My tradition of continual chanting/blessing/speaking to the creative force whoever and whatever that may be is important to my spirit, my creativity and my holistic purpose. I strive to see myself connected to everything.

On New Years Day, I bless my home. I bless all the windows, every room, and all doors and thank 'them' for providing us safety, refuge and fulfilling their purpose in our lives. I bless the sideway leading to our front door. I offer the blessings to create a safe and comfortable haven for my family and all who enter our home. 

 "Everything is connected ... no one thing can change by itself."  Paul Hawken

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." 

— Marilyn Monroe

NOTES FROM THE MOTHERSHIP: The Self I Think I Am.

Discover and reclaim your familiar unknown.

Location:Omega Institute for Holistic Studies

Time:8:00PM Friday, August 28th

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"Free Your Mind ... and Your Ass Will Follow."

Freeing and Feeding your Mind, your Body and your Spirit at my weekend retreat/workshop/mini-vacation ... August 28-30, 2009

at the beautiful Omega Institute, in Rhinebeck, New York 

(two hours outside of New York City). 

 

(workshop not affliated with the groups Parliament, P-Funk or the Funkadelic)

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Looking forward to meeting new and old friends in August.

Based on the provocative memoir by Adrienne Zurub:

Available at:

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"Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence ...." Richard Dawkins

Notes From the Mothership: The Self I Think I AM

Update: I am back from 3 months in the picture above! A tropical island in the Marshal Islands. Missed all of the Cleveland and Northeast winter weather. As a matter of fact, I took this picture at Emon beach. 

JOIN ME!  Come and discover ...  you, the familiar unknown.

As a faculty member of the prestigious 

OMEGA Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, New York, 

I am conducting a safe and sacrosanct workshop/exploration/discovery 

August 28-30 2009, 

entitled: 

NOTES FROM THE MOTHERSHIP The Self I Think I Am

Course 4102-663

Short COURSE description:

"How often does it feel as if we are waiting in the noise of our culture for a deeper recognizance, meaning, and valuation of ourself?

Yet, while our community stands ready to define, confine, and control us as women, mothers, men, fathers, and significant others, we can learn to embrace the option of seeing ourself naked, stripped of social roles and obligations to reveal the reflection of our true Self. This workshop can help us get there. 

Inspired by the comedian Adrienne Zurub and her remarkable book, Notes From the Mothership: The Naked Invisibles, we get to know the elusive "me" within each of us, the Self that is buried beneath the many layers and needs of others."

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CONGRATULATIONS PRESIDENT OBAMA!

God Bless You and Our Beloved Country!

Your family (Tutu, your Mother, and Grandfather) has rained their divine grace upon us all!

My New York Times Book Review 10-28-2008!

My most recent book, REFLECTIONS ON DOCTORS published September 2008 by Kaplan Publishing was reviewed by The New York Times. An essay from my book, Notes From the Mothership The Naked Invisibles is one of two dozen provocative essays.

 

"In “Reflections on Doctors,” they have 

produced something quite extraordinary in recent medical writings: a 

compilation of 19 brief essays musing on the current relationship between the 

species." --Abigail Zuber, MD, Nurses Speak Out, About Doctors, The New York Times

As REFLECTIONS ON DOCTORS' editor Terry Ratner, RN,MFA says, "The nurses of this anthology represent a spectrum of voices and perspectives, reflecting upon their work alongside physicians. The majority of these nurses have witnessed revolutionary changes in the nurse-physician relationship over time. They are our messengers, our heroes and our scribes."

The intimate and at times shocking stories in REFLECTIONS ON DOCTORS abound with the honesty of each writer's respect of and concern for the nursing profession, and the care that patients receive from doctors and fellow nurses alike. For example, in her fascinating essay, A Truth about Cats and Dogs, Adrienne Zurub, RN, MA, CNOR says of the competitive environment within the cardiothoracic operating rooms where she has worked, "Arrogance, entitlement, outstanding talents (nurses and surgeons), and palpable confidence dominate the entire operating room suites. A nurse pushes herself or himself through this encompassing fog of testosterone. I say testosterone because the surgeons, the ones who are in charge, are all male. To work in this environment, one has to have the personality and the chutzpah--the balls--to think quickly and react perfectly. Weakness or hesitation is normally not considered an option."

Many of the essays in REFLECTIONS ON DOCTORS provide readers with clear-cut explanations of various medical terminologies, interesting history of the nursing profession and glimpses into its future. The diversity of all the essays is appealing to both new and seasoned nurses, as well as to someone simply interested in understanding the importance and ever-changing relationship between nurses and phyicians. Further topping off this collection of engaging essays is a reader's guide designed to, says Ratner, "stimulate meetings of the minds and begin crucial conversations in hopes of understanding the nurse-physician relationship."

 

                                                                                                REFLECTIONS ON DOCTORS

                                                                                    Nurses' Stories about Physicians and Surgeons

                                                                                   

            Terry Ratner, RN, MFA, Editor

                                                                                                            Kaplan Publishing

                                                                                                            September 2008

                                                                                                $14.95 Paperback/ $16.95 Canad

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/health/28book.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/health/28book.html?_r=1&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin

 

Adrienne Zurub

Author/Speaker/RN

http://adriennezurub.typepad.com

 

WAIT THERE'S MORE1

10 Blog Posts You Must Read Before You Go Into a Voting Booth in November

Where can you get a real, unvarnished perspective on our healthcare system, and fast?

 

The 10 Blog Posts—A Pre-November 4 Reading List

Warning: The following posts are innovative, unflinchingly realistic and even outrageous. Read them as if your life depended upon it. Bookmark or email them to a friend. Herein lies grassroots politics, real dialog and idea exchange too easily buried under our current hollow Healthcare rhetoric:

 

CLEVELAND'S OWN:  6.  9 months to birthing my bestseller…, posted by Adrienne Zurub in September 2008. Here is a slightly outrageous and totally irreverent article that rolls together current healthcare reform and the nursing crisis.

 

THE OTHER NINE:

http://www.onlinenursingdegrees.org/nursingfacts/politics-of-healthcare.htm 

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By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.

Published: October 27, 2008

In our transparency-seeking, report-card-issuing, memoir-happy climate, not much about medicine goes unexamined these days. One exception, oddly, is an aspect that used to be at the center of attention: the ever-titillating relationship between doctors and nurses.

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Roberto Parada

Reflections on Doctors
Nurses' Stories About Physicians and Surgeons. Edited by Terry Ratner, R.N. Kaplan Publishing. 195 pages. $14.95

From Cherry Ames to Dr. Kildare, the folks in the stiff, white uniforms once waltzed around providing vicarious fun for all. A few serious academic analyses from those days confirmed the intensely stereotypic sexual gamesmanship and complicated power plays underlying even trivial doctor/nurse interactions.

Now, of course, all that has changed, with nursing established as a powerful and educated profession, with gender stereotypes erased, salary disparities shrinking and job descriptions overlapping.

But has it really changed? Do we know for sure? In theory, doctors and nurses are now heading for a happy paradise of equality, collaboration and mutual respect. Human nature being what it is, though, one wonders if we are not first condemned to weather a Reconstruction-type era of confusion and ongoing mutual abuse, as all parties struggle to regain their footing.

In the meantime, not many bulletins are coming in from the field. You can bet that no doctor out there is planning to publish a manuscript entitled “Reflections on Nurses” any time soon. I am assuming my colleagues concur that such a project would be best left for retirement incommunicado somewhere on a distant Pacific atoll, where the mailman    never calls.

...continued at the NYT link.

And, 

ISBN: 978-0-9792863-0-8

Available on http://amazon.com

Reviews for 'Notes':

"Unique, Unconventional, and unorthodox." 

"May I say how much I admire you! I have been a nurse for 16 years, and in that time was also married to a doc....ACK! What I learned from 'behind the scenes' was simply amazing. I write a blog about my life in chronic pain. I also am working on my Memoir, which revolves around my life events. I find I must be very careful if I write a post about a 'work day'. I can't imagine what you have been through just for being courageous and honest. The medical world has always enticed me, yet if I knew now..... " Shauna

" I read your book and feel like we're friends.  I might have been in the OR with you.  I spent some months at CCF when I was a pharmacy student.  I stood on a stool and observed a CABG.  I am from Cleveland, although I'm from the West Side.Your book makes me want to take myself less seriously and figure out how/when I lost my creativity.  I am an oncology pharmacist.  But I don't want that to define me.  I have artistic interests which I never make time for.  I'm only 30 but I am much older.  I'm hosting a book club and suggested your book after hearing you on NPR.  I'm so glad I did."  --Jenni Baltimore, MD

“I have the upmost respect for this nurse having the courage to speak out. I am also a nurse at the "mothership" and people have no idea how the nursing staff is treated. There is a constant "nursing shortage." As a nurse, we are viewed as the "pee-ons" We are the front runners who do the majority or patient care and we are undermined, unappreciated, disrespected and overworked. I give this nurse much respect, as there are MANY nurses who are feeling the same way. Many don't have the courage to speak out due to the Clinics strong influences and reputation. They are an amazing place to receive medical care. Yet how much more effective would the health care process flow if there was less animosity and a greater respect among ALL hospital staff?
Each member of the health care team is an important piece. In a perfect world...the Clinic would realize that. Maybe this will open there eyes.
I wish this nurse all the best of luck. You go girl!” --adgrlrccc

“Your honesty is unbelievable. Your writings have caused me to view my life, my career and my person in a whole new way. Writing ‘Notes’ took courage.” --BG,RN

“I just want to say THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for taking a stand. We experienced nurses out here are dying!! You GO GIRL! God Bless You, Adrienne!! I have never met you Adrienne, but I am so proud of you. I will be praying for you daily. I wish you could come down here and sit on my porch and drink some sweet tea.” --Rhonda, South Carolina