I’m a shoe girl, through and through. I have a closet dedicated to nothing but storing/displaying my shoes, and it is primarily filled with high heels. In fact, that singular closet is not big enough to contain all of my shoes. My flip flops, casual flat shoes, and too many pairs of fall/winter fashion boots … More She Wears It Well: Equal Opportunity Shoe Coverage on the Campaign Trail?
Editor’s Note: Make sure you read the entire Summer 2020 issue of Blue Water Woman, and be sure to sign up for your FREE subscription so the magazine is delivered to your email box every quarter! By Patti Samar If Pam Baunoch and Becky Mayes are nothing else, they are ready. Ready and willing to … More PAM BAUNOCH & BECKY MAYES: Managing Emergencies
Editor’s Note: Make sure you read the entire Summer 2020 issue of Blue Water Woman, and be sure to sign up for your FREE subscription so the magazine is delivered to your email box every quarter! By Dale Hemmila Christine Robinet is a doer. A nurse practitioner at Physician HealthCare Network’s Macomb Family Practice, Robinet … More CHRISTINE ROBINET: Protecting Patients
Editor’s Note: Make sure you read the entire Summer 2020 issue of Blue Water Woman, and be sure to sign up for your FREE subscription so the magazine is delivered to your email box every quarter! By Dale Hemmila Early on in the Coronavirus 19 pandemic, if you found yourself nearly a thousand miles from … More SARAH VANDERHEUVEL: Stepping Up
Editor’s Note: Make sure you read the entire Summer 2020 issue of Blue Water Woman, and be sure to sign up for your FREE subscription so the magazine is delivered to your email box every quarter! By Patti Samar As a woman of color, Jessica Totty has moved through the world very differently than her … More JESSICA TOTTY: Open Dialogue
Editor’s Note: Make sure you read the entire Summer 2020 issue of Blue Water Woman, and be sure to sign up for your FREE subscription so the magazine is delivered to your email box every quarter! By Patti Samar Jennifer Michaluk and Elizabeth King do not remember much of the months of March and April. … More JENNIFER MICHALUK & ELIZABETH KING: Essential Staff
Editor’s Note: Make sure you read the entire Summer 2020 issue of Blue Water Woman, and be sure to sign up for your FREE subscription so the magazine is delivered to your email box every quarter! By Patti Samar Just like in any profession, there are physicians who are good at their jobs, and then … More ANNETTE MERCATANTE, M.D.: Keeping Us Safe
Editor’s Note: Make sure you read the entire Summer 2020 issue of Blue Water Woman, and be sure to sign up for your FREE subscription so the magazine is delivered to your email box every quarter! By Patti Samar I began planning this issue of Blue Water Woman a month or so into the pandemic. … More PATTI SAMAR: Shine the Light
By Patti Samar In 1991, John Engler fired me. Okay, that is not exactly true. He wasn’t brave enough to come by my office and do it himself. 😉 In 1991, then-Michigan Governor John Engler sent one of his minions to the office where I worked in Lansing, and Mr. Minion told our entire staff … More PATTI SAMAR: Wear the Damn Shoes
By Patti Samar Sara Tait is a people person. And in her role as a major gift specialist at the McLaren Port Huron Foundation, Tait enjoys nothing more than building long-lasting relationships with donors or potential donors, helping them realize their dreams of, perhaps, leaving a legacy at the hospital, oftentimes in tribute to a … More SARA TAIT: Stepping Up